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What journalism is for: public interest and accountability

How journalism serves democracy by holding power to account, and how to tell the public interest from what merely interests the public, in capitals and small towns alike.

Power, and who watches it

Take two stories from one week on a regional news site. One, about a footballer's divorce, will be read by tens of thousands. The other, about a planning committee letting a developer build on land once set aside for a school, will be read by a few hundred. Journalism has to be able to say which of the two it…

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