Facebook intends to support regional news with fund to train UK reporters

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Facebook aims to support local news with fund to train UK journalists

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Facebook wishes to assist boost neighborhood news.

The social media on Monday released the Community News Project fund to support regional journalism in the UK. The fund is a financial investment of $6 million (₤ 4.5 million) to assist the National Council for the Training of Journalists to hire 80 students and put them in regional newsrooms for 2 years.

The job intends to motivate more reporting from towns that do not have papers or beat reporters. The application procedure will open in early 2019, according to Facebook’s post. Publications like the Newsquest, JPIMedia, Reach, Archant and the Midland News Association are partners of the job.

“Community news is shared widely on Facebook, on pages and in community groups, and this collaboration will help us reach communities which don’t currently benefit from in-depth community news,” stated Karyn Fleeting, head of audience at Reach, in the post.

The news push follows a New York Times examination put Facebook’s magnates under microscopic lense recently. CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg “ignored warning signs and then sought to conceal them from public view” prior to the Cambridge Analytica scandal struck the social media in March in 2015. The paper likewise stated Facebook understood about Russian activities on its platform as early as spring2016

The paper likewise stated Facebook utilized a company called Definers Public Affairs to strike back versus or spread out inflammatory details about its critics. Senators on Friday corresponded pushing the social media for more information of its relationship with Definers.