When Dame Frances Cairncross called for a sustainable funding model for high-quality news in her 2018 Review, the state of the UK media sector was already pretty dire, especially at the local level.
So the following year, innovation charity Nesta was given £2m of government money to launch Future News Fund, a scheme aimed at boosting innovation within public interest news, and test whether such model could support the industry in the future.
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