Journalismfund Europe hired a journalist to manage the municipal subpages and profiles, changed the portal's layout, and prominently featured municipal boxes on the home page. It launched subpages and profiles on Facebook. The statistics show a consistent audience for this information. This has expanded its audience.
Filling information deserts is a tedious and lengthy process. The organisation feels it is still at the beginning, but it has taken the basic steps to reach small local communities with information.
Thanks to the project, the number of readers who contact its editorial office with suggestions for topics from municipalities has increased. These include investigative and monitoring topics. This means that the project has been noticed and is fulfilling its purpose.
Journalismfund Europe's flexible grants programmes enable journalists to produce relevant public interest stories with a European mind-set from international, national, and regional perspectives.
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