To the editor of Pevensey Bay Life
My name is Matt Abbott and I work at the Centre for Community Journalism in Cardiff.
The Centre for Community Journalism was set up to support new forms of local journalism and to explore, through research conducted at the leading School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University, new sustainable models for news. Our focus is at the hyperlocal level; the place where journalism is most valued, but also most at risk.
Our goals are simple:
To help create more jobs in journalism at the local level and to encourage the dissemination of quality news.
Since we set up the Centre in 2013, the media landscape has changed drastically. In a post-Leveson world, our remit has expanded to offer representation, through lobbying and advocacy, training and networking, research and advice, to all hyperlocal / community news publications.
We believe that a united sector of like-minded publications is stronger and more influential if it speaks with one voice.
To this end, we have recently announced plans to form a representative network for the hyperlocal community news sector. You can read all about it here.
If this is of interest to you, please get in touch to let us know, and we will keep you informed with relevant updates, dates of consultations and meetings, and how you can get involved.
In the meantime, I invite you to explore our website. There are many resources on there for hyperlocals.
You can also register Pevensey Bay Life on our hyperlocal map, if you’d like.
In addition, we regularly update our Twitter account with relevant content that affects the sector. Please follow us at @C4CJ and @MJ_Abbott.
Best wishes,
Matt Abbott
Communications and Project Officer
Centre for Community Journalism, Cardiff University
