SCOTLAND'S public interest journalism is in “crisis”, a leading media group has warned, as it urged the new minister with responsibility for media to follow UK and Welsh moves to protect local news from tech giants and collapsing revenues.
The Scottish Public Interest Journalism Initiative (SPIJI) has warned the negative impact of unregulated tech giants and other issues such the changing nature of news consumption are making it "increasingly difficult to maintain the flow of trustworthy news across Scotland when the public is swamped with fake news and misinformation".
