🚨 GOOD NEWS: we’re hiring staff writers in Birmingham and Glasgow 🚨
These are full time roles in which you get proper time to do quality work. You will write ~1 story per week, working with phenomenal @millmedia.bsky.social editors.
Applications close soon. Please share 🙏
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🚨🚨 We’re hiring staff writers in Glasgow and Birmingham - please tell your talented friends to apply this weekend.
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Profit or Nonprofit? A Debate over Journalism’s Future. @joshih.bsky.social of Mill Media and Vanan Murugesan of the Sahan Journal join @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin on this week's Journalism 2050. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
🚨 It looks like we might be hiring very soon. If you’re a journalist in Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Huddersfield or Halifax - or you grew up there and want to move back - please contact @djstimms.bsky.social with haste. As soon as we hit 500 we can hire.
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🚨We're hiring!🚨
The Bell is hiring another full-time staff reporter to join our team. We're looking for someone ambitious & tenacious, who is willing to knock lots of doors. Our journalism is in-person & on-the-ground.
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At long last, we’re launching in Leeds! Ever since I started The Mill, people have asked us to create a publication across the Pennines.
If 500 people pledge to become members, we’re going to hire two journalists and do it. Please share with Leeds friends.
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We’re launching a new independent newspaper for Leeds - funded by readers.
If you want better local journalism in Leeds, this is how it starts.
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Manchester Mill find the small group of Reform activists includes several with v overt prejudices. They fairly note that Goodwin can't be expected to vet them all in advance. To date, the site report he is not willing to criticise ant of it once revealed either
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EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK just broke electoral law in Gorton and Denton.
The party confirmed they sent out campaign materials without proper party imprint, something it insists was a mistake.
Wow - @manchestermill.bsky.social catches Reform UK sending fake letters to residents without saying they’re from Matt Goodwin’s campaign, a glaring breach of electoral law.
Looks like the effectiveness of electoral law may be facing a test:
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@manchestermill.bsky.social really does some extraordinary work.
Here's the thing about @millmedia.bsky.social: our fearless editors allow us to publish incredibly important work - like @liverpoolpost.bsky.social stories on Laurence Westgaph.
Now @londonermag.bsky.social is up against a property scammer. Support us below 👇
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Proud to work for @millmedia.bsky.social, a media organisation that stands up to bullies who try to silence our reporting through legal action.
@sheffieldtribune.bsky.social stood up to Andrew Milne, now our sister title @londonermag.bsky.social is up against a property scammer. Support us below 👇
I'm being sued for libel by a man who ran a rental arbitrage scheme involving some of London's priciest properties. The Londoner have been brilliant in standing behind me & refusing to give into this naked attempt at silencing the truth. Read below -
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"So, in an act of petty protest, to prove that this is not exclusive content, and that the MEN are effectively trying to make you pay for something you’ve already paid for, we are publishing the full piece for free today..."
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Great work from The Mill!
#R4Today
Thank you
This is incredibly petty by @manchestermill.bsky.social - it was obviously done without my knowledge
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🏊♀️You've got your Mugdocks, you've got your Loch Lomonds, but what about swimming in the city? It seems like a recipe for hypothermia and cholera, and maybe it is. But it was once all the rage in Glasgow.
“Let’s hope their investigation is shit then you can come home,” wrote Paris Askew to her boyfriend Ethan Hallows on 17 December 2023, four days after Kevin Pokuta had died.
“They picked the wrong team," says DS Lindsay Harding.
This is the story of how South Yorkshire Police cracked a conspiracy.
A keystone of future prosperity? Or a drain on London's efforts to build new homes?
We go inside the data centre boom rewiring the capital. Link below.
🏆 Huge congrats to @molliesimpson.bsky.social , named the Rising Star by Women in Journalism.
“A major @manchestermill.bsky.social investigation into the University of GM which resulted in a police investigation into alleged financial irregularities regarding suspected fraud and bribery.”
The decline of local newspapers has created a big gap - with areas struggling to build new models of coverage.
But some have been bucking the trend - in particular @millmedia.bsky.social founded as @manchestermill.bsky.social in Manchester.
Find out more: futurenorth.substack.com/p/is-this-th...
William Morris, chair of @uni-greatermcr.bsky.social’s board – the most influential person at the university - has resigned
It comes after we reported a curious arrangement in which his wife Baroness Morris runs a company that has charged the university millions manchestermill.co.uk/first-the-vi...
Manchester’s Central Library was once considered the British Library of the North. Did a miscalculation in shelving lead to it having to chop a huge fraction of its non-fiction collection, and at speed? I spent a year obsessing about a long-lost rumour from the early 2010s tinyurl.com/ynsyvy2t
“Murder demands justice. Englishmen! Blush for your country.”
186 years ago, Samuel Holberry led the “Sheffield rising”, an armed insurrection aimed at bringing democracy to Britain.
The rising failed, but his story remains relevant today. How far would you be prepared to go for a just cause?
The @manchestermill.bsky.social is such a gem of a local paper. This article on the Central Library demonstrates so well how the local can be a microcosm of wider trends.
“It seems possible that what was being fought over here was not only the books, but two competing visions of this city. “
Overall a key lesson from this story is the power of new organisations to make positive change – Mill Media is to be commended for pushing the boundaries of new media and local democracy.
Thanks to @djstimms.bsky.social for the chat.
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Good piece by @jpspencer.bsky.social on the way the supply of local news is being changed, for the better, by the growing number of linked independent platforms in the @millmedia.bsky.social "stable".
cc @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social
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