I think the reason no-one needs a London centric newspaper is deep down, everyone hates living in London. No one can afford the houses, no one cares for gossip about schools because no one can afford to have kids. When I read the London Evening Standard I used to just feel so much resentment for a newspaper written by and for people wealthier and more successful than me. The fact the owner is a billionaire Tory donor and the editor is David Cameron’s sister in law doesn’t help.
Ham and High:
“Aaaaaaaaarrrgh! We’re all going to be murdered in our beds! I’m too young to die!”
I just don’t think we’ve ever quite struck it right on the scale of London Vs the news offering. We treat London local news like we would treat a regional town local news, but the fact is that if I’m in say Tooting, I probably won’t care about Badgers in Hackney.
London local news should be closer to many countries national news output. Focus on the governmental issues, broader public appeal
How does anyone define local in London? I think this goes to the question of ‘which version of London?’
Greater London is too large and creates irrelevance.
The City of London, Central London (whatever that means!)?
You know it’s bad when the yanks are saying this…
Meh, is not that bad. Just do your own digging.
There is Diamond Geezer and he is all over the place.
Spitalfields life, Ian Visits, Murky depths, many local focused blogs.
Walthamstow Echo.
Hackney Gazette, Hackney Citizen
Newham Recorder.
To name a few.
I’ve been enjoying both London-centric and The Londoner recently. I took 2 things from this article:
1. London-centric must be making £240k per year on subscriptions alone, with plenty of potential to earn more. That’s a decent gig for a one-man band.
2. The journalist from the New Yorker is a berk to think that we have sidewalks in London.
Every single London local news outlet I’ve seen is a massive NIMBY vent hole. Can’t say I miss any of them.
It’s just a change in the way we consume media right? I get so much local news from instagram and even on here a lot faster than I would from a more traditional print based media. Lots of local people who have their own social media accounts that post local news for people, I’ve lived in my area in east London for nearly 40 years and learn so many new things from them.
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I quite like the Camden New Journal.
I think the reason no-one needs a London centric newspaper is deep down, everyone hates living in London. No one can afford the houses, no one cares for gossip about schools because no one can afford to have kids. When I read the London Evening Standard I used to just feel so much resentment for a newspaper written by and for people wealthier and more successful than me. The fact the owner is a billionaire Tory donor and the editor is David Cameron’s sister in law doesn’t help.
Ham and High:
“Aaaaaaaaarrrgh! We’re all going to be murdered in our beds! I’m too young to die!”
I’ve mentioned it a couple of times before (but never enough!) a talented ex coworker of mine runs’ the London minute’ and is a bit of an inspo for me, check his free substack out:
https://open.substack.com/pub/londonminute/p/london-minute-13-march-2025?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1tc2db
I just don’t think we’ve ever quite struck it right on the scale of London Vs the news offering. We treat London local news like we would treat a regional town local news, but the fact is that if I’m in say Tooting, I probably won’t care about Badgers in Hackney.
London local news should be closer to many countries national news output. Focus on the governmental issues, broader public appeal
How does anyone define local in London? I think this goes to the question of ‘which version of London?’
Greater London is too large and creates irrelevance.
The City of London, Central London (whatever that means!)?
You know it’s bad when the yanks are saying this…
Meh, is not that bad. Just do your own digging.
There is Diamond Geezer and he is all over the place.
Spitalfields life, Ian Visits, Murky depths, many local focused blogs.
Walthamstow Echo.
Hackney Gazette, Hackney Citizen
Newham Recorder.
To name a few.
I’ve been enjoying both London-centric and The Londoner recently. I took 2 things from this article:
1. London-centric must be making £240k per year on subscriptions alone, with plenty of potential to earn more. That’s a decent gig for a one-man band.
2. The journalist from the New Yorker is a berk to think that we have sidewalks in London.
Every single London local news outlet I’ve seen is a massive NIMBY vent hole. Can’t say I miss any of them.
Read The Londoner: https://www.the-londoner.co.uk
Really good quality, New Yorker style articles
I chip in a fiver a month to the Walthamstow Echo
It’s just a change in the way we consume media right? I get so much local news from instagram and even on here a lot faster than I would from a more traditional print based media. Lots of local people who have their own social media accounts that post local news for people, I’ve lived in my area in east London for nearly 40 years and learn so many new things from them.
Haringey community press is worth a look.
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