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Community Journalism: Building a Sustainable Future

31st August 2021

The Centre for Community Journalism & the Independent Community News Network is delighted to announce its 2021 conference, Community Journalism…

11th May 2021

Independent community news publisher West Leeds Dispatch has been given a huge boost after its bid for National Lottery funding…

1st April 2021

The award winning Salford Star, believed to be the country’s longest running community media outlet, is set to close after…

5th March 2021

ICNN is pleased to announce the Beta trial phase of its innovative new Ping! news delivery platform has launched. Ping!…

5th March 2021

This obituary was written by Linda’s widower Alan Slingsby. Linda Quinn, editor of the Brixton Blog and Bugle, who died…

25th February 2021

South Leeds Life, a founding member of ICNN, recently celebrated its 10th year of publishing. Editor Jeremy Morton explains how…

10th February 2021

Independent news titles in Wales are set to benefit from government funding in a further bid to help the sector…

22nd October 2020

As happened during the first national lockdown, local restrictions threaten to undermine the already fragile sustainability of the independent news…

12th October 2020

This article was previously published on the Behind Local News website If the internet and social media created the perfect…

18th September 2020

The headline of the current issue of the Caerphilly Observer reads: ‘Let’s do this’. It is, of course, referring to…

2nd September 2020

As ICNN member bitternepark.info celebrates its fifteenth birthday, editor Guy Phillips looks back on how it all started, at some…

20th August 2020

Today (20/08/20) our members in Scotland have launched a three-week advertising partnership with the Scottish Government and supported by ICNN.…