Local Democracy Reporting Service: Difference between revisions

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The scheme launched in 2017.<ref name="Lock" /> As of the 2021 contracting round, 165 '''Local Democracy Reporters''' ('''LDRs''') were employed by eighteen participating organisations, ranging from large bodies including [[DC Thomson]], [[Reach plc|Reach&nbsp;plc]], [[Newsquest]] and the ''[[Evening Standard]]'', to smaller outlets such as [[107.3 Radio Exe|Radio Exe]] and Social Spider, a [[community interest company]] which which publishes three north London community newspapers.<ref name="LDRS" /><ref name="Lock" /><ref name="LDRA-2021">{{cite web |title=New Local Democracy Reporting Service contract holders revealed |url=https://www.bbc.com/lnp/ldrs/2021_contracts/ |publisher=BBC |access-date=25 June 2022 }}</ref><ref name="x853">{{cite web |title=853 and the Local Democracy Reporting Service |url=https://853.london/about/853-and-the-local-democracy-reporter-scheme/ |website=853 |access-date=25 June 2022}}</ref>

Stories written by LDRS staff are [[Press pool|pooled]] and can be used at no cost by over a thousand participating news organisations, including the BBC.<ref name="LDRS" /><ref name="Lock" /><ref name="LDRA-2021" /><ref name="x853" /> LDRS stories have featured on national BBC radio and television news programmes.<ref name="Lock" /> In the first four years of the scheme, almost a quarter of a million stories were filed, with a peak of 1,321 in a seven-day period in September 2021.<ref name="Linford">{{cite news |last1=Linford |first1=Paul |title=Local Democracy Reporting service 'has become template" says Davie - Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage |url=https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2021/news/local-democracy-reporting-service-has-become-template-says-bbc-dg/ |access-date=25 June 2022 |work=Hold the Front Page}}</ref>

The scheme has been replicated in New Zealand and Canada.<ref name="Linford" />