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Government response to the review: • New codes of conduct will “rebalance and redefine the relationships between news publishers and online platforms”.


• Platforms will be required to identify the reliability and


trustworthiness of online news sources.


• An online media literacy strategy will be published this summer.


• Treasury will consider tax incentives – removing VAT charged on online news subscriptions and extending the business


community engagement with local democracy. It found that investigative journalism was expensive – Te Times spent £48,000 on its 10-month investigation into sexual abuse by charity workers, Te Sun spent £73,000 on an investigation which was not published. Such journalism is costly and high risk, while documenting the day-to-day goings on in local public institutions is time- consuming and not generally well read. New players, however, are emerging.


rate relief on local newspapers in England.


• Te government said no to an Institute for Public Interest News and charitable status for public-interest newspapers, and the BBC must fund expansion of the local democracy reporter


Cairncross cited the new models of Te Bureau for Investigative Journalism and the Glasgow-based Ferret.


Te consequences of not doing this sort of journalism can be deadly, the report implied; commentators said the failure to report Grenfell Tower residents’ concerns was a key reason why the local authority did not act to prevent the catastrophe. Te review examined the change in


news-consuming habits. Most people now find their news online. While newspapers


How to improve your boss


Tim Dawson takes lessons in challenging poor office behaviour


I’ve had some choice editors in my time. Prof Tantrum – intense, prone to explosions of anger and content to leave subordinates in tears. Te Weasel who got others to do his dirty work. “Sack him immediately” and “cut her fee by 20 per cent” were among the directives he fired my way. Finally, Easy Rider who was wont to send me to knock on the door of the known violent psychopath without a warning. Tey all came to mind when I


read about NUJ Training Scotland’s Collaborative Leadership course. It promises to combat poor management practices, including hierarchical management structures, misogynistic


atitudes and poor people management. I joined 11 others in Glasgow, under the tutelage of Vérène Nicolas and Richard Golsworthy, respectively a non- violent communication practitioner and a psychologist. We first divided into groups of three and acted as subject,


provide an array of stories and topics, the “unbundling” of content online meant readers selected only the articles they wished to view, “so they may be less likely to read public-interest news”. It found people spent less time on news online than they did in print and concluded that “UK adults may be less well-informed online than through more traditional forms of news delivery”. When the report was published, the union criticised its timid approach to the tech giants. “Leting the tech giants off the hook sidesteps the real issues of how they get a free ride with the content they suck up online and disseminate on their platforms,” said Michelle Stanistreet. “We wish Dame Frances had been braver in making Facebook and Google responsible for the news they exploit.” With the government further watering


down Cairncross’s solutions to the crisis in local papers and threats to quality journalism, will it be too late by the time the next generation’s review is held?


mentoring interviewer and observer. Rotating roles, we described incidents from our own lives where our core beliefs had been challenged, where we had undermined a colleague and where we had undermined ourselves. It was the first of several sessions in threes, tugging apart preconceptions about comfort zones, inner voices, and our need for affirmation. Te collaborative leadership strategy


focuses on how to challenge others’ behaviour while reflecting on their motives, how to create opportunities to respond more effectively and how to signal ways in which future actions might be improved. Homeward bound, my mind returned


Tutor Vérène Nicolas


to Tantrum, Weasel and Easy Rider, and I am certain of one thing: with my new knowledge, I would have responded to them differently and life on both sides of the managerial divide might have been happier.


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