"Many Photos" - A £2 MILLION fund will be launched by the Government to support public interest journalism

The pilot Future News Fund is part of the Government’s response to the Cairncross Review into the future of high-quality journalism in the UK. The review's author, Dame Frances Cairncross, is pictured above 

A £2million fund is to be launched to support public interest journalism.

The pilot Future News Fund is part of the Government’s response to the Cairncross Review into the future of high-quality journalism in the UK.

The report, published earlier this year, called for ministers to look at tax breaks for ‘public interest’ journalism, with direct funding for local public interest news. 

The fund will be targeted at local and regional journalism.

Welcoming the fund, the review’s author, Dame Frances Cairncross, said: ‘Innovation is important if news organisations, and especially small and local providers of news, are to survive and to provide accessible public-interest news for the widest possible audience.’

Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright said: ‘While we are still developing our full response to the Cairncross Review, our plans to open a pilot fund now will help papers explore innovative ways of providing the public service journalism that citizens need and deserve.’

The Society of Editors (SoE) gave a more cautious welcome to the fund, calling for ‘open debate with the industry’ to decide what qualifies as public interest journalism and questioning how the independence of investigative reporters and their publishers will be ensured against any possible influence from fund-providers. 

SoE executive director, Ian Murray, said: ‘While we support whole-heartedly the idea that new and innovative forms of delivering news, in particular from local communities, should be supported, the danger lies in who will decide which initiatives are worthy and which are not.’

The fund will be launched in the autumn and run until the end of the financial year.

The Government’s full response to the Cairncross Review is expected to be published later in the year.

The report, published earlier this year, called for ministers to look at tax breaks for ‘public interest’ journalism, with direct funding for local public interest news. The fund will be targeted at local and regional journalism [File photo]

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