Adam Newby is Acting CEO of NewsNow Publishing Limited, a global top 50 news web site and news discovery platform. NewsNow is a news organisation that uses technology to support and promote credible, independent and public interest journalism, and in turn, news media plurality. Adam combines a background in computer science and decades of experience in software development, with creative skills, having also turned his hand to photography and documentary filmmaking.
Local journalism is in an existential crisis. As journalists, we often ask, ‘Who's going to save local journalism?’ – meaning, ‘who's going to pay for it?’. Given the scale of the problem, w...