What happens when you ask people what they want from local news and compare that to what's actually being offered by news providers? You end up with an information needs gap analysis that can clearly ...
Jonathan Heawood
Jonathan Heawood cares about journalism that cares about people. He is the founder and Executive Director of the Public Interest News Foundation, the first charity in the UK with a mandate to support public interest news.
He previously launched and ran IMPRESS, the UK’s independent press regulator. He started his career as a journalist at the Observer newspaper and has also held leadership roles at English PEN and the Sigrid Rausing Trust. Alongside his day job, he is Chair of the Stephen Spender Trust and a Research Associate on the Norms for the New Public Sphere project at Stirling University. His first book, The Press Freedom Myth, was published in 2019, and he is now working on a book about media pioneers.
Events IJF 2025
Around the world, media pioneers and researchers are exploring new forms of ‘co-creational’ news media, where communities are actively involved in producing the news. At its best, co-creational me...
The MacArthur Foundation has spearheaded the Press Forward initiative to raise $1bn for local journalism in the US. Why are US philanthropists putting so much energy into local news? Can local news l...
Who is winning the ongoing battle between platforms and publishers? This panel delves into the global impact of the world-first Australian News Media Bargaining Code (NMBC) introduced in 2021, examini...
Local journalism is in an existential crisis. As journalists, we often ask, ‘Who's going to save local journalism?’ – meaning, ‘who's going to pay for it?’. Given the scale of the problem, w...
Australia’s path-breaking 2021 legislation, which got Google and Meta to pay more than 300 million dollars to media outlets, is being watched by countries around the world that want to emulate it. H...
In rich countries, local media is struggling to survive. The people who produce and consume the news are increasingly elites living in big cities. Why is this happening, what does it mean for democrac...
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