Due to the decline in print newspapers, many journalists have lost their jobs and have experienced failing careers due to this decline. This article looks at an innovative contribution to the debate about the crisis from Martin Moore of the Media Standards Trust, Addressing the democratic deficit in local news through positive plurality or, why we need a UK alternative of the Knight News Challenge (KNC). Moore believes there should be a UK version in order to transform local news provision, arguing that £10m a year for five years would fund 2,000 local news and civic technology projects. He offers three possible options of where the money would come from: a one-off contribution from Google and/or other digital giants; an annual charge for the collection and commercial use of personal data; a voucher scheme.
- In five years, Knight gave awards to 79 news innovation projects to a total of $26.5m (£16.4m).
- £10m a year for five years would fund 2,000 local news and civic technology projects.
In my opinion, I can understand the reason why Moore has come up with this idea as the decline in newspapers have had a knock on effect on journalists. However, it may just be a career that is facing a tough time and may even be dying out with the digitalised world we live in today. If journalism is finding it hard to survive now then it might just be even worse in the future. This is the whole purpose of Moore wanting to introduce the scheme in order to 'save journalism', however there may not be any point and funding may be difficult to get.
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