{"id":1293,"date":"2014-09-11T15:14:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T14:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2014-09-11T15:15:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T14:15:10","slug":"keep-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=1293","title":{"rendered":"Keep local news"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A warning that the continuing closure of local newspapers threatens local government democracy came from Unite delegate and Cambridge city councillor, Nigel Gawthrope on September 10.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nigel told delegates, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe decline of local newspapers is an employment and industrial issue in my print sector, but it is a question of democracy and transparency for wider society.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe still have the Cambridge News and thankfully it is still supported by the local community.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bBut many local newspapers have closed and many have drastically downsized; print jobs have been lost as titles have become history and circulation has fallen.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nigel also expressed concern that the decline of local newspapers meant that only those from relatively wealthy backgrounds could take up journalism as a career, which itself, distorted how journalism is presented nationally.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The TUC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s concern comes against a backdrop of 140 newspapers closing since March 2011 and a quarter of local government areas are not covered by a daily regional newspaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A warning that the continuing closure of local newspapers threatens local government democracy came from Unite delegate and Cambridge city councillor, Nigel Gawthrope on September 10. &nbsp; Nigel told delegates, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe decline of local newspapers is an employment and industrial issue in my print sector, but it is a question of democracy and transparency for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[85],"wps_subtitle":"Unite warns of democracy threat ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}