Taking on the 'poisoned chalice of writing about the Viking Wind Farm
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It’s been another year of growth for The Scottish Beacon as we grew our collaborative to 24 independent, community-based publishers. It’s been a pleasure to reflect back on some of our highlights…
We held a partners meeting in January in Edinburgh to set some priorities for the year ahead
We hosted an event in Edinburgh on the future of local news in Scotland as part of Indie News Week.
We ran collaborative reporting projects on the loss of community spaces and the visitor levy.
We ran the Citizens Agenda project when we asked people around the country what issues they wanted MP candidates to be talking about in the run up to general election and then put those questions to them and published the results.
We launched our 100 Days of the Green Transition project to cover community action on climate change following the election of the new government.
We published around 150 stories on our website and sent around 25 newsletters.
We celebrated our one year anniversary in August.
We grew our subscriber following – and launched on Blue Sky.
We took part in the Public Interest News Foundations’s independent journalism forum in Glasgow.
We have been shortlisted for a Tenacious Journalism Award
We’ll soon be meeting to make some plans for the year ahead. What stories would you like our collaboration on draw attention to local issues at a national level?
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-Rhiannon
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