Further calls to Culture Secretary for a Public Interest Journalism Institute
The author and investigative journalist was speaking at the Wigtown Book Festival at the weekend. She said that there is an urgent need to reverse the decline in Scottish journalism and this is one way …
Phyllis Stephen, The Edinburgh Reporter
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