Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles has called on councils to open up their public meetings to local citizen journalists and routinely allow online filming of public discussions as part of increasing their transparency.
Greater openness can be achieved by lifting access restrictions and adopting a modern day approach so that credible community or ‘hyper-local’ bloggers and online broadcasters get the same routine access to council meetings as the traditional accredited media have.

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