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Our observations show that the nationwide media in Poland are very centralized and rarely cover local issues. Those that manage to break through mostly cover road accidents and weather disasters. We also see that there is a lack of inter-editorial cooperation in Poland – editorial offices, instead of cooperating with each other, compete for readers or financial resources. In addition, in small and medium-sized editorial offices, we notice a constant reduction in expenditure on human work, including proofreading. As a result, the journalists working there have to be versatile and deal with everything from contacting the source to promotion.We want to support journalists from independent local media in terms of education and development. We will recruit 30 representatives of such media and then divide them into 5 thematic groups. Each of the groups will receive editorial support through consultations with editorial staff of the partner editorial offices. We will organize a three-day training seminar with 5 workshop sessions prepared by our partners. Topics will include healthcare, local media or the crisis of the Church in Poland. We will also conduct a series of 7 webinars, among others, on digital competences, legal aspects in the press, work on sources, editing and proofreading, or editorial work management. They will be available to people invited by project participants, e.g. people from their editorial office.Our partners are the Nowa Rzeczpospolita Foundation, the Kultura Liberalna Foundation, the Jagiellonian Club and the Catholic Intelligentsia Club. All these organizations have been working together for several years as part of the Spięcie project, thanks to which they have experience in inter-editorial work and cooperation across divisions.