They plan on using the funding to train locals to produce their own content and aim to ‘provide communities with the toolsets, support and facilities to create their own content and set their own news agendas’.

 

Speaking on Blog Preston about it, Joseph Stashko, said: “We want to create a surge of community journalism, to enable people to question and report what’s going on around them, and use our platform to showcase their work.”

 

It’s going to be interesting to see what happens over the next year.