We’re so close to finishing off our funding goal, that we think we’re in the final month now. To be honest, we’ve been here before. The last two and a bit years have been a journey and a half. Who thought it would take so long? We didn’t, but we also fully acknowledge that, when...
Nearly there…
We’ve been fundraising for what seems like forever, though it has only been a couple of years (informally and formally). At one point we thought we could do it all via promoting the idea on Twitter and Facebook, but we could never quite get the traction needed. Hindsight, that wonderful thing that we all wish...
Agents of Change
If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember Challenge Anneka, where Anneka Rice would charge around the country, via Truck which contained a beach buggy, or whatever it took (often flagging down a lift) to get to a location and do something. Sometimes a small community project, and sometimes something big, life changing; something you...
Launch
Even though we are still fundraising, it is time to set a launch date for being on-air, though we hope to actually beat that date, if you don’t have hard goals, it can be tough to focus on delivery. We therefore plan to launch our service on March 31st, 2024 at 12.30pm. We hope you’ll...
Campaign Journalism
It’s time to talk about campaign journalism, as we are massive supporters of it in news, but, as we’ll discuss, it is not common in most broadcast news, and why we think that is wrong. Firstly, what is it. Well, you would have seen it in newsprint, and it is where, editorially, a newspaper supports...
Radio
Here at News Service towers, we have fond memories of radio. Some of us got our start in media doing hospital radio, that almost uniquely British pastime of being a radio DJ, at least in training, in your spare time, while not getting paid for it. Of course, the pay bit is a moot point;...
X, or Twitter as we shall always refer to it as, is of much less use and of debatable quality than it used to be, and considering it used to be the ‘go to’ social media platform for news brands, that is a huge shame. That said, most of the news brands have stuck with...
We like to pretend like it’s 2010 all over again by launching our Facebook page. Social media becomes part of the essence of getting the word out that you’re doing things, even when it also sucks so much time out of your day, that you don’t actually end up doing so much… Anyway, if you’re...
Affiliate Help
It is a common theme when fundraising to be told, quite reasonably, that folk are too skint to help out. In a cost of living crisis, this makes a lot of sense – and there are a lot of calls for help for funding these days. The downside has always been that it is quite...
Soft Launch
Every site has its first ever post. This is ours. After just over a year of being in stealth mode, as the offering was being worked on, experts consulted, business plans written and revised, and a lot of uphill struggles (one step forward, two steps back), today we soft launch. What that basically means is...