Category: Talking Wales

Indie News Week highlights the vital role that local community-led outlets play in sustaining democracy, fostering public engagement, and filling critical information gaps left by declining mainstream media.

Home » News » Public Interest News in an Ideal World A plan for Wales I regularly write about the challenges public interest news faces in Wales and further afield, mainly due to legacy news publishers’ failing business models. There is a general consensus on the importance of public interest news, that is, news…

Ultimately, a vibrant, diverse, and accessible public interest news service for Wales, utilizing a multi-platform approach, can strengthen the foundations of Welsh democracy by empowering citizens, holding power to account, and celebrating the unique voice of Wales.

Its staff, specifically the journalists it employs. What makes an effective news service? Giving time to journalists to research, investigate and publish their stories, to follow up and publish updates. The general public would be surprised to learn how few journalists are employed by some outlets with many relying on…

Three years ago, almost to the day, following several conversations on and offline, I set about improving the news landscape of Wales. With the support of hundreds of people via an initial crowdfunding effort and then Patreon I was able to research and develop a model for a sustainable news…

How do people in Wales keep themselves informed of what’s happening in their communities or at a regional or national level? Whilst Wales has suffered from a historic lack of national newspapers and news services it has been served relatively well from a local and regional perspective. For many in…