Newsmakers: The big challenges for local news with Claire Stuchbery

Claire Stuchbery is the CEO of LINA - the Local and Independent
News Association. LINA works to ensure that local audiences are
served with independent, original, high-quality public-interest
news reporting covering important issues. In our conversation,
Claire points to some real examples of where local reporting has
been able to combat misinformation and surface stories that would
not have been told otherwise. Most of us would agree this is
important work. But if the business model doesn’t stack up, the
means ability for these newsrooms to continue is diminished. Claire
doesn’t sugarcoat or shy away from that reality. So the question
becomes, what does an Australia without local news look like?
Claire is one person who’s doing her best to ensure we don’t find
out.