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Newspapers have dropped the ball to a degree. Many people read local papers and they’re not getting the news they want. They read their paper or watch their local TV news and they’re spending time covering national stories. I don’t know that people want the whole experience of the news covered there. They need some place to go to know just what is going on on the local level. It doesn’t necessarily have to be professionally produced.

All this means that enterprises have to shift from a mindset and organisational systems of Fordist/Taylorist control to a mindset and systems of autonomous networked individuals. For that, we can learn a number of things from games:

Bespoke is already creating a legacy for the area. Community radio station Preston FM, CSV Preston and hyperlocal news start up Blog Preston have joined forces with funding from NESTA to keep the work going and to take advantage of the local knowledge and insight. Community reporters trained by Bespoke got their first story published in the Lancashire Evening Post.