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Overcoming the biggest challenges in local news: The Overtake perspective

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On this week’s episode of Media Voices, the founder and editor of The Overtake Robyn Vinter candidly takes us through the challenges and compromises involved in running a local news outlet.

She discusses the importance of being independent, the strictures and sacrifices that comes from being a small news outlet, and why there needs to be variety and diversity of journalistic voices.

In the news roundup, the team succumbs to the heat and discusses bad news around social media, whether journalists should be incentivised to chase clicks, and whether a Cosmopolitan x Tinder branded podcast is a model to be emulated.

Peter and Chris perform their first single live on the podcast.

Republished with kind permission of Media Voices, a weekly look at all the news and views from across the media world.