Building The Lord Howe Island Signal website
The Lord Howe Island Signal received $50,000 in funding support from NSW Government’s Regional Media Fund in order to build this website.
The key objectives of the Regional Media Fund are to:
- improve the long-term sustainability of regionally focussed media and news gathering organisations.
- support organisations that are investing in the regional media industry by maintaining or creating employment opportunities in regional areas.
- support innovation and digitisation that will enable more effective creation and distribution of regional media content.
- ensure that people living in regional NSW have access to a diverse range of local news and content.
The Signal Digitisation Project
The aims of the project are to provide The Lord Howe Island Signal with an expanded digital presence, enabling it to provide more news content, develop new audiences, generate additional revenue by way of subscription sales, advertising and royalty income and enliven news, promotional opportunities for the Lord Howe Island community and businesses.
Participants in the Project
LHI Management Services – owner and publisher of The Lord Howe Island Signal, represented by Stephen Sia.
Australian Rural & Regional News (https://arr.news/) - the first and only platform featuring independent news from across all of rural and regional Australia, represented by the ARR.News editor, Fiona Fox.
Australian Rural & Regional News showcases stories from a growing number of local and independent news publishers, from established mastheads to modern digital publications, broadening their reach. It is proud to have The Lord Howe Island Signal as a founding contributor.
The Lord Howe Island Signal website was developed by Bridget Knox from CodeLab.
Ben Hawke, veteran television journalist and producer, long time visitor to Lord Howe Island.
Proudly funded by the NSW Government
