One of Britain’s biggest media groups is looking for a reporter to cover Greenwich Council after the News Shopper lost its contract to cover the town hall as part of a BBC-funded scheme. Reach, the company behind the Daily Mirror, Manchester Evening News and Liverpool Echo, today takes over the contract to cover Greenwich, Bexley […]
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Revealed: How traditional local media ignored SE London’s election counts
Election counts in Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley were among the least-covered by London’s media, research by 853 has discovered, with the area’s traditional local press not covering the counts at all. Bexley and Bromley issued just three passes to the media for the counts on the night of 12 December 2019 – the lowest number […]
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Mercury Man: The sports reporter who became a hypnotherapist
853‘s special correspondent MERCURY MAN has done a bit of sports reporting in his time – but what happens when the local paper industry starts to fade away? Sit back, relax, and let him talk you through what happened to one of south-east London’s best-known sports writers after the cuts came… Sports journalism tends to […]
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Put local newspapers on buses to help save London reporting, Assembly report urges
London buses should carry copies of local newspapers to make sure communities have access to local news, a report from London Assembly members says. The Assembly’s economy committee has been investigating the decline in local journalism in the capital, which in this part of London has manifested itself in the collapse of the firm which […]
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Greenwich borough set for new weekly paper after council strikes ad deal
Greenwich borough is all set to get a new weekly newspaper after Greenwich Council agreed to sign an advertising deal with the publisher of the weekly Southwark News. Councils must, by law, publish certain public notices – such as for planning and highways matters – in at least one local newspaper. Until 2016, Greenwich had […]
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News Shopper’s entire newsroom threatened with redundancy
A further nail in the coffin of mainstream journalism in south-east London – the News Shopper’s entire newsroom has been put on notice of redundancy by the newspaper’s owner, Newsquest, according to its staff. The paper was moved to Sutton last year to share a newsroom with its sister publication, the South London Guardian series. […]
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News Shopper slashed again: What’s the future for SE London journalism?
Another nail in the coffin for local journalism in south-east London has arrived this week, with the merger of the Greenwich and Lewisham editions of the News Shopper. In truth, it’s not a huge cutback – papers meant for Sydenham to Abbey Wood largely had the same content anyway. And the paper’s distribution is patchy […]
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