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Meanwhile, stories like this make me hopeful for the future of local journalism. Amazing work from the @millmedia.bsky.social / @manchestermill.bsky.social team.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Meanwhile, stories like this make me hopeful for the future of local journalism. Amazing work from the @millmedia.bsky.social / @manchestermill.bsky.social team.
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Is there a game on? Oh… I was reading this great @millmedia.bsky.social piece about the lost history of local newspapers in Manchester and environs:
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manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
The clattering, chaotic, romantic world of Greater Manchester’s lost newspapers
What happens when a community loses its champion?
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November 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Is there a game on? Oh… I was reading this great @millmedia.bsky.social piece about the lost history of local newspapers in Manchester and environs:
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
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A timely story about the decline of local newspapers and why local journalism (not the version that is mainly syndicated news) is important.
The MEN is now the only local newsroom in Greater Manchester that has more than a handful of staff reporters, but go back 25 years and it would have been one of a dozen.
Our weekend read is the tale of what’s been lost.
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
Our weekend read is the tale of what’s been lost.
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
The clattering, chaotic, romantic world of Greater Manchester’s lost newspapers
What happens when a community loses its champion?
manchestermill.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
A timely story about the decline of local newspapers and why local journalism (not the version that is mainly syndicated news) is important.
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Started my working life working for The Bolton Evening News & their Lancashire Journal Series - Mealhouse Lane was the centre of a seemingly eternal media empire; the deafening noise of the comps room and the underground presses, the buzz of the newsroom. Eternal; and then it wasn't...
What have we lost? “Something hard-to-define but powerful” writes Jack Walton. “The sense that a particular place matters; The knowledge that a group of people are going to work every day to chronicle not just any little corner of the planet, but your corner.”
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
The clattering, chaotic, romantic world of Greater Manchester’s lost newspapers
What happens when a community loses its champion?
manchestermill.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Started my working life working for The Bolton Evening News & their Lancashire Journal Series - Mealhouse Lane was the centre of a seemingly eternal media empire; the deafening noise of the comps room and the underground presses, the buzz of the newsroom. Eternal; and then it wasn't...
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This is a fantastic piece - full of joy as well as the obvious sadness.
The MEN is now the only local newsroom in Greater Manchester that has more than a handful of staff reporters, but go back 25 years and it would have been one of a dozen.
Our weekend read is the tale of what’s been lost.
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
Our weekend read is the tale of what’s been lost.
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
The clattering, chaotic, romantic world of Greater Manchester’s lost newspapers
What happens when a community loses its champion?
manchestermill.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
This is a fantastic piece - full of joy as well as the obvious sadness.
The MEN is now the only local newsroom in Greater Manchester that has more than a handful of staff reporters, but go back 25 years and it would have been one of a dozen.
Our weekend read is the tale of what’s been lost.
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
Our weekend read is the tale of what’s been lost.
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
The clattering, chaotic, romantic world of Greater Manchester’s lost newspapers
What happens when a community loses its champion?
manchestermill.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The MEN is now the only local newsroom in Greater Manchester that has more than a handful of staff reporters, but go back 25 years and it would have been one of a dozen.
Our weekend read is the tale of what’s been lost.
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
Our weekend read is the tale of what’s been lost.
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
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Here to recommend @manchestermill.bsky.social to everyone. Currently pay what you want to 2 months of delightful local journalism. Good for newbies to the city or old hacks (I'm sort of both)
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November 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Here to recommend @manchestermill.bsky.social to everyone. Currently pay what you want to 2 months of delightful local journalism. Good for newbies to the city or old hacks (I'm sort of both)
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For a limited time only: Pay what you feel for The Mill!
We're launching a campaign to get 1,000 new subscribers.
If we succeed, we'll fulfil six pledges, chosen by our readers.
Read the pledges and sign up by clicking the link below!
We're launching a campaign to get 1,000 new subscribers.
If we succeed, we'll fulfil six pledges, chosen by our readers.
Read the pledges and sign up by clicking the link below!
November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
For a limited time only: Pay what you feel for The Mill!
We're launching a campaign to get 1,000 new subscribers.
If we succeed, we'll fulfil six pledges, chosen by our readers.
Read the pledges and sign up by clicking the link below!
We're launching a campaign to get 1,000 new subscribers.
If we succeed, we'll fulfil six pledges, chosen by our readers.
Read the pledges and sign up by clicking the link below!
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She only reads @manchestermill.bsky.social in print 🗞️
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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If you want to know what's really going on in Manchester plus support proper journalism, I can highly recommend @manchestermill.bsky.social
🚨 We've just launched our first ever membership campaign - with six pledges chosen by our readers and a 50,000-copy print edition hitting the streets.
Please share with friends - and join up! New members can choose their price.
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Please share with friends - and join up! New members can choose their price.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM
If you want to know what's really going on in Manchester plus support proper journalism, I can highly recommend @manchestermill.bsky.social
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Absolutely brilliant idea from my colleagues at The Mill 👏
If they add 1,000 new members over the next few weeks, they’ll fulfil six pledges to the city.
Best of all? The offer is pay what you want for the first two months!
There’s also a lovely new print edition which I need to get my hands on 🗞️
If they add 1,000 new members over the next few weeks, they’ll fulfil six pledges to the city.
Best of all? The offer is pay what you want for the first two months!
There’s also a lovely new print edition which I need to get my hands on 🗞️
Join The Mill - Quality journalism for Greater Manchester
The Mill produces local journalism that is both informative and enjoyable to read — including investigations, culture pieces and opinionated columns about Manchester's biggest talking points.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Absolutely brilliant idea from my colleagues at The Mill 👏
If they add 1,000 new members over the next few weeks, they’ll fulfil six pledges to the city.
Best of all? The offer is pay what you want for the first two months!
There’s also a lovely new print edition which I need to get my hands on 🗞️
If they add 1,000 new members over the next few weeks, they’ll fulfil six pledges to the city.
Best of all? The offer is pay what you want for the first two months!
There’s also a lovely new print edition which I need to get my hands on 🗞️
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Some of the best money I've spent in the last few years, help be part not just of some of the best journalism around, but a reinvention of local news at a time when it is most needed.
Our membership campaign is LIVE! We’re aiming for 1,000 new members in the next few weeks.
Please join - you can choose the price - and share the link to help us get there.
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Please join - you can choose the price - and share the link to help us get there.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Some of the best money I've spent in the last few years, help be part not just of some of the best journalism around, but a reinvention of local news at a time when it is most needed.
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If @manchestermill.bsky.social gets 1,000 new pay-what-you-want subscribers in "the next few weeks" it will make good on a bunch of pledges, the first of which is "teach fact-checking in schools" 👍
The moment has come! Our campaign is under way. Can you help?
Tell your friends about The Mill and help us fulfil six pledges to help the city
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November 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
If @manchestermill.bsky.social gets 1,000 new pay-what-you-want subscribers in "the next few weeks" it will make good on a bunch of pledges, the first of which is "teach fact-checking in schools" 👍
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Our membership campaign is LIVE! We’re aiming for 1,000 new members in the next few weeks.
Please join - you can choose the price - and share the link to help us get there.
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Please join - you can choose the price - and share the link to help us get there.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Our membership campaign is LIVE! We’re aiming for 1,000 new members in the next few weeks.
Please join - you can choose the price - and share the link to help us get there.
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Please join - you can choose the price - and share the link to help us get there.
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manchestermill.co.uk/lp-3/?referr... - really recommend subscribing to this - it’s a proper newspaper with investigative journalism and everything- no clickbait or churnalism!
Join The Mill - Quality journalism for Greater Manchester
The Mill produces local journalism that is both informative and enjoyable to read — including investigations, culture pieces and opinionated columns about Manchester's biggest talking points.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
manchestermill.co.uk/lp-3/?referr... - really recommend subscribing to this - it’s a proper newspaper with investigative journalism and everything- no clickbait or churnalism!
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I'm going to go a bit off piste here if you'll allow me...
If you haven't heard of the @manchestermill.bsky.social before, it's a brilliant online newspaper, delivering really good quality local journalism
Have a look at it, I've been a member for a few years
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If you haven't heard of the @manchestermill.bsky.social before, it's a brilliant online newspaper, delivering really good quality local journalism
Have a look at it, I've been a member for a few years
manchestermill.co.uk/pay-what-you...
Pay what you want for The Mill - and help get us add 1,000 new members
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November 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I'm going to go a bit off piste here if you'll allow me...
If you haven't heard of the @manchestermill.bsky.social before, it's a brilliant online newspaper, delivering really good quality local journalism
Have a look at it, I've been a member for a few years
manchestermill.co.uk/pay-what-you...
If you haven't heard of the @manchestermill.bsky.social before, it's a brilliant online newspaper, delivering really good quality local journalism
Have a look at it, I've been a member for a few years
manchestermill.co.uk/pay-what-you...
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Great to see the rise of the Mill in Manchester as a source of quality local journalism. They're running a campaign where you can subscribe for any amount - follow the link below to find out more...
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Join The Mill - Quality journalism for Greater Manchester
The Mill produces local journalism that is both informative and enjoyable to read — including investigations, culture pieces and opinionated columns about Manchester's biggest talking points.
manchestermill.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Great to see the rise of the Mill in Manchester as a source of quality local journalism. They're running a campaign where you can subscribe for any amount - follow the link below to find out more...
manchestermill.co.uk/lp-3/?referr...
manchestermill.co.uk/lp-3/?referr...
🚨 We've just launched our first ever membership campaign - with six pledges chosen by our readers and a 50,000-copy print edition hitting the streets.
Please share with friends - and join up! New members can choose their price.
manchestermill.co.uk
Please share with friends - and join up! New members can choose their price.
manchestermill.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM
🚨 We've just launched our first ever membership campaign - with six pledges chosen by our readers and a 50,000-copy print edition hitting the streets.
Please share with friends - and join up! New members can choose their price.
manchestermill.co.uk
Please share with friends - and join up! New members can choose their price.
manchestermill.co.uk
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I love this look at a bus route like no other. I used to live on Stockport Road and took the 192 every day. It really is like an alternative universe.
How the 192 became Manchester’s muse
The bus route that became a cornerstone of Mancunian life
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November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I love this look at a bus route like no other. I used to live on Stockport Road and took the 192 every day. It really is like an alternative universe.
Put 50p in Pat Karney and he’ll tell you a prerehearsed quote about Christmas.
When I draw him aside for a chat he goes off like a pull-string Santa toy: “I love Christmas. I live for Christmas. I would start Christmas in August if I was allowed to.”
But not everyone in MCC feels this way...
When I draw him aside for a chat he goes off like a pull-string Santa toy: “I love Christmas. I live for Christmas. I would start Christmas in August if I was allowed to.”
But not everyone in MCC feels this way...
Meet the man taking on Manchester's 'Christmas Refusniks'
'I would start Christmas in August if I was allowed to'
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November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Put 50p in Pat Karney and he’ll tell you a prerehearsed quote about Christmas.
When I draw him aside for a chat he goes off like a pull-string Santa toy: “I love Christmas. I live for Christmas. I would start Christmas in August if I was allowed to.”
But not everyone in MCC feels this way...
When I draw him aside for a chat he goes off like a pull-string Santa toy: “I love Christmas. I live for Christmas. I would start Christmas in August if I was allowed to.”
But not everyone in MCC feels this way...
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3. Bit of a jarring shift in tone from the above, but Ophira Gottlieb's Mill piece about the Christmas-obsessed Councillor Pat Kearney is packed with perfect lines of writing.
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Meet the man taking on Manchester's 'Christmas Refusniks'
'I would start Christmas in August if I was allowed to'
manchestermill.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 8:31 AM
3. Bit of a jarring shift in tone from the above, but Ophira Gottlieb's Mill piece about the Christmas-obsessed Councillor Pat Kearney is packed with perfect lines of writing.
manchestermill.co.uk/big-wheel-pa...
manchestermill.co.uk/big-wheel-pa...
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www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/sometimes-it... I wrote last week about two villains and one hero in the battle between truth and lies. Well here’s another hero - the Sheffield Tribune, one of the Mill stable of independent news sites, had the courage to publish an important story despite legal threats..
Sometimes it’s worth the risk
“We will definitely bring proceedings for Defamation and Malicious Falsehood if you publish such complete and malicious lies.”
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November 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/sometimes-it... I wrote last week about two villains and one hero in the battle between truth and lies. Well here’s another hero - the Sheffield Tribune, one of the Mill stable of independent news sites, had the courage to publish an important story despite legal threats..