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== Bristol Mayor dispute ==
The scheme itself came into the news in June 2022, when the Mayor of Bristol, [[Marvin Rees]] and his council's head of external communications, Saskia Konynenburg, challenged the line taken by LDRS reporter Alex Seabrook in questioning the mayor's {{convert|9000|mile|km|adj=on}} return flight to Vancouver to speak about [[climate change]] at a [[TED (conference)|TED event]], and whether it was appropriate for a LDRS reporter, rather than a mainstream newspaper journalist, to be asking the question. Shortly afterwards it was reported that LDRS staff would not be allowed to attend the mayor's future press conferences, resulting in a boycott of those events by several local news outlets, as well as the BBC and [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]].<ref name="Sharman">{{cite news |last1=Sharman |first1=David |title=Bristol titles boycott Marvin Rees over council's BBC LDR ban - Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage |url=https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2022/news/rival-titles-boycott-mayor-as-council-bans-local-democracy-reporters/ |access-date=25 June 2022 |work=HoldtheFrontPage}}</ref><ref name="BBC-61912309">{{cite web |title=Local Democracy Reporters excluded from Bristol mayor's briefings |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-61912309 |publisher=[[BBC News]] |access-date=25 June 2022 |date=23 June 2022}}</ref>
== References ==
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