Here are just some of the reasons News and Media Republic came into being:
- for those affected by media to have some control over it
- to allow people to have a real input in the news within a supportive framework
- to provide the oxygen of publicity to new and emerging practitioners
- to develop awareness of the skills needed in a media-rich world and offer training and advice
- to create opportunities for professionals in the media
- to raise awareness of local issues
- to big up local ethical companies and concerns
- to provide cumulative information on subjects that had been found difficult to pin down
- to research and utilise a variety of media to engage as broad a spectrum of the community as possible, particularly young people, old people, those who are socially excluded and those in rural isolation
- to be transparent and honest with advertisers and about content
- to champion the creative industries and to initiate projects and programmes
- to engage, inform, entertain
- to report in a top-quality way on creative practitioners of all types in broad range of media