Charities Struggle to Secure Media Coverage

Press officers at international charities needed a stronger UK "hook" for their stories than ever before, she said.

Richard Askwith, associate editor of the Independent, said: We are still very interested in foreign stories. The difficulty is justifying the expense of sending people on long trips, because there is, in effect, a double cost: first the cost of the actual travel and secondly the cost of that person being unavailable for any other work for several days.