Local newspapers in the UK are disappearing fast, creating news deserts and leaving councils unscrutinised. Now, though, a new generation is reinventing community journalism. Tina Brown, for one, is a fanI’m not sure what I was expecting of Mill Media’s HQ: en route to Manchester, where the business is based, I vaguely picture people frantically hot-desking in a WeWork-style shared space. But whatever was in my mind, it’s nothing like the reality. The digital publisher of local news whose cheerleaders include Tina Brown, the former editor of the New Yorker, and Mark Thompson, the chief executive of CNN, has made its home high in the roof of the magnificent Royal Exchange, in a trio of rooms, little wider than corridors, that contain not one bit of boring, Scandinavian-inflected office furniture. Staff here joke that Joshi Herrmann, the company’s charismatic founder, is as good at interior design as he is at journalism, and in a single glance you can see why. Squashy sofas, battered dark wood desks, standard lamps with tasselled shades: he bought them all himself, secondhand, on Facebook Marketplace.Herrmann, who’s in his mid-30s, takes me into the third of the rooms, where we sit in two old-fashioned armchairs beside a bureau on which there’s a manual typewriter. Is it just for show or does he use it? “I do use it, yes,” he says, with a rueful smile. “I’ve got three of them.” A typewriter, he tells me, is useful when he’s trying to come up with ideas: “It slows you down... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Mark Thompson says New York Times journalism will remain impartial and won't be swayed by commercial considerationsMark Thompson, the chief executive of the New York Times, has hit out at rival Bloomberg for saying it shouldn't have published investigative news stories criticising China, because... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Haymarket Business Media (HBM), the UK's digital publisher of the year*, has named Jane Macken as its managing director. Continue reading at Media Week
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