Westmonster - the new politics blog

Lloyd Shepherd, former director of news and information products at Yahoo and (disclaimer) deputy director of digital publishing at GU, has a new company and a new project in the form of Messy Media which is set to roll out a series of specialist news blogs.The company launched its first publication, politics blog Westmonster (boom boom) today, with editor Sadie Smith live blogging the prime minister's speech at the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

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