CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
Summary
Chapter 1: Introduction
Legal, regulatory and political context
This report
Chapter 2: The economic challenge
Figure 1: Main source for UK News
Figure 2: Trend in main source of news and information about local area
Newspapers
Figure 3: Advertising spend—regional press (2005 constant prices £m)
Table 1: National newspaper circulation, 2001-2011
Figure 4: Newspaper circulation volumes decline, 2005-2015 (as predicted by Enders Analysis)
Figure 5: Newspaper cost structures
Figure 6: Number of regional and local newspaper titles
Broadcasting
Online content
Chapter 3: Legal and regulatory issues
Is it ever acceptable to break the law?
The public interest
Interpreting the public interest
Public interest and the criminal law
Regulatory Codes
Internal management and governance
Civil law
Sources
Whistleblowers
Public relations professionals
Chapter 4: Ownership and its significance
Media plurality and the public interest test
Media ownership at a local level
Media ownership at a national level
The national cross-media ownership rules
Public service broadcasting quotas
Chapter 5: Funding investigative journalism
Zero-rating VAT status for newspapers
The BBC licence fee
Alternative funding models for investigative journalism in newspapers
Charity ownership
Non-traditional funding models for investigative journalism
Public subsidy for investigative journalism
An investigative journalism fund
Chapter 6: Convergence
The role of social media in investigative journalism
Data journalism
Finding a business model online
Chapter 7: Training tomorrow's investigative journalists
The role of universities
Charitable mentoring and sponsorship
Chapter 8: Conclusions and recommendations
Appendix 1: Select Committee on Communications
Appendix 2: List of witnesses
Appendix 3: Call for Evidence
NOTE:
Evidence is published online at www.parliament.uk/hlcommunications
and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020
7219 5314).
References in footnotes to the Report are as follows:
Q Refers to a question in oral evidence;
Witness names without a question reference refer
to written evidence.
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