It was a good luck and well-done gesture from my parents for bagging a trainee position straight out of university. Sure, it was super kind and thoughtful… blah blah blah… but my plan to just blend into a newsroom which was wall-to-wall grown-ups was thwarted by the Interflora delivery that was squeezed onto my desk in between the mounds of press releases and notebooks.
But I needn’t have worried because it was a local newsroom full of heart, kindness and warmth – with a team who thankfully didn’t take the piss out of the young 21-year-old none of them could really see over the cacophony of coloured petals.
It’s exactly the same sentiment and words that I’d use now for the local news team I currently work for, in London. We are small and we are mighty – and every now and then we annoy some MP or local councillor with an investigation they’d rather we didn’t look into and share. But that’s the point.
Which is why when the leader of the Nottinghamshire County Council Mick Barton decided to ban the local paper the Nottingham Post, Nottinghamshire Live, and employees from BBC-funded Local Democracy Reporting Service from speaking to him or any of his councillors with immediate effect – it raised eyebrows both in the industry and out. The fallout was reportedly sparked by a disagreement about a story on local government reorganisation. Senior editor Natalie Fahy said she was “very concerned” by the “unprecedented ban”. In response, Barton said the party would not “allow misinformation to shape the narrative of our governance”.
We can call the Nottingham move “Trumpian” because we’re well-versed in the American news cycle, but how much attention does social media give to local political affairs, how our money is spent, and on what.
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National and international news has its place, of course, but local press is unmatched in terms of its tenacity, drive, and ability to really annoy public servants. Let’s not forget what being a public servant actually means: someone who serves the public, and is therefore accountable to the public. Accountability, one could argue, is not demonstrated by banning members of the press. There’s a whole other word for that.
I get to tell the stories of the place I call home. And in an era when some national press can relentlessly skew the stories of the places we call home, we have to be mindful of what we take for granted.
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