As Reach makes more job cuts on local titles, is a sustainable future in sight for local journalism to hold power to account?
“It’s becoming like the Hunger Games for journalists,” says one reporter, summing up the increasing uncertainty of life working in the economically precarious regional newspaper industry.
In the space of two months, Reach, the UK’s biggest regional and local newspaper owner with hundreds of titles and sites including the Birmingham Mail, Liverpool Echo and Manchester Evening News, has embarked on two rounds of cuts, putting about 620 jobs at risk.
