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April 15, 2016

32 local newspaper campaigns which have made a difference over the last year

By Dominic Ponsford

Some 32 local newspaper campaigns have been put forward to a public vote by the News Media Association to have a chance of winning its Making a Difference Award.

Shortlisted campaigns include the Birmingham Mail’s campaign to highlight child sex exploitation in the West Midlands, the Cumberland News’s successful opposition to proposed £26 million cuts to police funding and the Oxford Mail’s drive to stop Freedom of Information laws from being watered down.

The winner will be announced by News Media Association chairman Ashley Highfield at the Society of Editors Regional Press Awards on 20 May.

Full shortlist:

  • Archant Investigations Unit Contaminated Blood Scandal
  • Birmingham Mail Child Sex Exploitation in Birmingham
  • Birmingham Post BBC Midlands investment
  • Camden New Journal Pay Up Now
  • Daily Post #savebetsibabies
  • Derby Telegraph Colin Bloomfield Melanoma Appeal
  • Dundee Evening Telegraph Bald is Beautiful
  • Eastern Daily Press Mental Health Watch
  • Evening Express Save the Bon Accord Baths
  • Express and Star Ladder for the Black Country
  • Glamorgan Gazette Yule Love Bridgend
  • Hereford Times One in Eight
  • Hull Daily Mail Kids in Crisis
  • North West Evening Mail Healthy Young Minds
  • Oxford Mail Public Defibrillators Campaign
  • Oxford Mail FOI: Your Right to Know
  • Oxford Mail Lonely this Christmas
  • Salisbury Journal Salisbury Airfield
  • South Wales Echo Cardiff United Against Cancer
  • Southern Daily Echo Dumped Dogs: Find the Culprit
  • Stourbridge News Well of Life Appeal
  • Sunday Post Who Cares?
  • Telegraph and Argus Stop the Danger Drivers
  • The Argus Save our Centres
  • The Courier Frank’s Law
  • The Cumberland News Spirit of Cumbria
  • The Cumberland News Fight the Cuts
  • The Press and Journal Apprentice 100
  • The Press and Journal Energy 2050
  • The Sentinel Our Big Read
  • The Westmorland Gazette Give Robbie Room
  • Yorkshire Post Loneliness: The Hidden Epidemic.

More information from the NMA here

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