October is Mental Health Awareness Month — we encourage you to check in with yourself and with your team. Working in local news is as high pressure as it is rewarding. Journalists can often experience burnout and emotional distress after reporting on difficult stories, and there is no shame in asking for help. In this episode of Meet the Newsrooms, Karen Paterson from NIRS shares some of her own strategies for looking after mental health when reporting on difficult stories, such as practising mindfulness exercises. Working in news means you're often time poor, but something as simple as listening to the birds in your local park can be a valuable emotional reset. Beyond Blue offers free online mental health sessions for small business owners, such as local news publishers. You can find the link in this LINA blog post, alongside a list of further mental health resources, helplines and articles tailored to hyperlocal journalists: https://buff.ly/4er8g69. Listen to Meet the Newsrooms: https://buff.ly/3BvO1pp
LINA: Local & Independent News Association
Internet News
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Supporting your local and independent digital news outlet.
About us
The Local Independent News Association (LINA) was established in 2022 to expand into the local news industry in Australia. Local media has become a critical element of the media landscape in Australia. LINA ensures that local audiences are served with high-quality coverage of local, original and public-interest news of important issues. Helping the existing local media, LINA’s passion is to grow, and to encourage new hyperlocal media entrants by providing capacity building support, expert advice and access to critical third-party services, giving a deeper level of hands-on support to many organisations.
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https://www.lina.org.au
External link for LINA: Local & Independent News Association
- Industry
- Internet News
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Sydney, NSW
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2022
Locations
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Primary
Sydney, NSW 2015, AU
Employees at LINA: Local & Independent News Association
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Michael Haagensen
Copy Editor; Arts Manager
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Clare Hastings
Systems nerd 🤓 problem solver ✅️ sandwich architect 🥪
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Claire Stuchbery
Executive Director - LINA; community media and policy specialist.
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Nelson Yap
Publisher & Editor of Australian Property Journal. Co-convener of Public Interest Publishers Alliance and Board Member of LINA.
Updates
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The LINA Board joined some of our staff in Melbourne for a productive planning day yesterday, refining LINA's strategic priorities for the year ahead. As always, our vision remains a vibrant and diverse local news landscape providing news services to communities across Australia. We're looking forward to sharing some of the projects in development for the remainder of 2024 and beyond. Thanks to Community Broadcasting Foundation for the great office views!
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Exciting news! We’ve launched the Walkley Solutions Journalism Fund to support public interest journalism. Independent journalists and media organisations can apply for grants ranging from $5000 to $30,000. Applications close on 12 November 2024. Don’t miss this amazing opportunity. Learn more and apply. https://lnkd.in/gg6gNd2P
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Amrita Sidhu from Medianet - Media Intelligence Made Smarter recently joined us to run through the 2024 Australian Media Landscape Report, as well as explaining the tools Medianet offers journalists and newsrooms. LINA publishers can access the recording on our website now: https://buff.ly/3MWGNwX
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The first GNI x LINA online workshop is coming up on October 1. Lais Santos will be available for 1:1 consultations with workshop attendees, to work through this month's theme: News Consumer Insights 3(NCI 3). LINA publishers, keep an eye on your inbox for registration details.
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20 reasons to be proud of the 20 years InDaily has been delivering news services in South Australia. Congratulations Paul Hamra and all the team at Solstice Media. We're proud to stand alongside you.
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Meet Karen Peterson from the National Indigenous Radio Service — in this episode of Meet the Newsrooms, we talk self care tips for journalists after covering triggering stories, why platforming First Nations voices around climate change issues is so important, and why the NIRS like to end their news bulletins with a lighthearted story. You can listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts here: https://buff.ly/3Tvc0ez or on Spotify here: https://buff.ly/3TBsZf7 Get to know Australia's local and independent digital publishers in these short and snappy audio episodes, kept at under ten minutes for all of the busy journalists out there!
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Here's a fantastic example of quality public interest journalism — Manningham Life has compiled 4 years worth of petitions and issues raised at Council meetings to give locals an idea of what their community finds important: https://lnkd.in/gsd4p5CP This is the first time such information has been collated, and will help Manningham residents make an informed decision when voting in their Council election next month. This work was supported by a LINA micro-grant. Apply for yours today: https://buff.ly/3WTId10