From left: Conrad Landin, Danielle Rowley MP, Tribune editor Ronan Burtenshaw, Labour peer Pauline Bryan, freelance journalist Eve Livingston, CommonSpace reporter David Jamieson and Unite Scotland chair John Gillespie
SCOTLAND’S media needs a radical democratic transformation in order to survive and prosper, journalists and politicians said this weekend.
At a Morning Star fringe meeting at Scottish Labour conference, Midlothian MP and former journalist Danielle Rowley highlighted the “huge, huge decline in local papers and local journalists.”
She said it was far harder for politicians both to get their message out and to be held to account because of staffing cuts at newspapers.
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