Around 90% of UK local news agencies appear to have closed since the 1980s
Former news agency chief Don Leigh Britain’s once-thriving network of independent news agencies has shrunk from hundreds of businesses supplying Fleet Street with original journalism to a fraction of its former size. Just 17 members remain in the National Association of Press Agencies (NAPA), compared with nearly 200 at its peak. Established in 1982, NAPA…