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Ian Hargreaves is Professor of Digital Economy at Cardiff University. Most of his career has been in journalism, where his roles included Deputy Editor, Financial Times; Editor The Independent; Editor the New Statesman and Director BBC News and Current Affairs. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
October 26, 2015 •
Latest stories, Specialist Journalism •
by Ian Hargreaves
The UK’s hyperlocal (community) journalism scene has long provoked strikingly contending judgments. Doubters see it as amateurish, fragile and of little relevance to ‘real’ journalism. Supporters believe it has already built the base...
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