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Foundation funding reveals murky world of farm subsidies
Case study by Tim Dawson. Michael Heseltine always enjoyed being considered one of the ‘big beasts’ of British politics. Less well known, until recently, is that he has long been a recipient of around £90,000 of annual funding from the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Lord Hesseltine, who founded the magazine company Haymarket, is thought [...] -
Sail racing ‘app mag’ enters unchartered waters
Sail racing is possibly the first ‘back bedroom’ iPad magazine to launch – and to judge by the initial response, it looks set to blaze a trail. Established and self-financed by Justin Chisholm for ‘around £10,000’, its target was to reach 10,000 views and downloads by the first week in February. It passed that milestone [...] -
New magazine aims to cash in on Good Life
Amid the endless tales of failing titles, the launch of a new monthly suggests the traditional model for magazine publication may be alive and, er, laying. Your Chickens, which goes on sale tomorrow in newsagents and supermarkets across Britain, aims to find a market among the 500,000 people who keep hens in their back gardens. [...] -
Hyperniche offers new model for journalism
You could describe it as hyperniche. A news start-up providing in-depth reporting on disability issues, Disability News is already proving itself a viable model for quality journalism. John Pring launched the subscription-funded news service for campaigning organisations in April 2009. A former staffer at Disability Now with ten years’ experience covering disability issues, he was [...] -
Journalism graduates get hyper (local)
Hyperlocal start-up The Lincolnite has declared itself open for advertising business. The Lincolnite was launched an experiment in May when journalism graduates of the University of Lincoln realised the city had no dedicated local news provider. Since then, it has built a team of staff and freelances, secured a grant from Enterprise@Lincoln, and now gets [...] -
Council paper clamp-down announced
Local authorities will be prevented from producing more than four newspapers a year, and ‘propaganda papers’ will no longer allowed under new rules proposed today by UK Communities Secretary Eric Pickles. Initiating a six week consultation of the draft regulations, Pickles, a combative former leader of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, said: “An independent local press [...]