7 - Building A Better Sefton - Indy Media holding power to account! - Abi and the Liverpool Post!
Season 1, Episode 162, Sep 16, 12:23 PM
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Today at Building a Better Sefton, we speak to Abi Whistance, Editor and Reporter at the independent online newspaper The Liverpool Post. Local news has been decimated, and Abi talks superbly about the importance of investigative journalism and what the Post does! She also covers some of the big issues in Sefton and how they fit into the wider regional context. This is essential listening!
Here is the website. https://www.livpost.co.uk/ - Please support them! You can subscribe here too to receive regular emails and newsletters.
You can contact the Post at abi@livpost.co.uk with any potential stories.
The Post does vital work in any increasingly decimated news landscape!
We chat about: -
- The importance of quality and local independent news.
- Why investigative journalism is important.
- Toxic Facebook groups.
- How the Post works and their successful model of journalism.
- The difference between the Liverpool Post and the old ‘Daily Post’!
- How the internet has changed news.
- Sefton Children’s Services.
- Councils lacking transparency.
- Bootle Strand Redevelopment.
- Southport Regeneration.
- The causes and impacts of the riots.
- What Sefton needs moving forward.
- The importance of Section 106.
- The investigation into the Big Help Project.
- Hopes to expand the Post in the future.
Here is the website. https://www.livpost.co.uk/ - Please support them! You can subscribe here too to receive regular emails and newsletters.
You can contact the Post at abi@livpost.co.uk with any potential stories.
The Post does vital work in any increasingly decimated news landscape!
We chat about: -
- The importance of quality and local independent news.
- Why investigative journalism is important.
- Toxic Facebook groups.
- How the Post works and their successful model of journalism.
- The difference between the Liverpool Post and the old ‘Daily Post’!
- How the internet has changed news.
- Sefton Children’s Services.
- Councils lacking transparency.
- Bootle Strand Redevelopment.
- Southport Regeneration.
- The causes and impacts of the riots.
- What Sefton needs moving forward.
- The importance of Section 106.
- The investigation into the Big Help Project.
- Hopes to expand the Post in the future.
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Please join our Facebook Page, for written pieces and our podcasts - https://www.facebook.com/groups/695280703082811
We are also on Substack – where you can access podcasts and written pieces - https://buildingabettersefton.substack.com/ - You can subscribe and contribute financially on here.
Follow us on Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/timshortsefton.bsky.social
You can also contribute financially through our Ko-Fi page - https://ko-fi.com/northsouthpodcasts
You can also support our Crowdfunder - https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/VWE0qPrl?utm_campaign=sharemodal&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=shortlink