📢 Great news to end the year: Our new publication The Londoner is about to reach 6,000 signups after less than two months. It has published some incredible journalism by Hannah Williams, Andrew Kersley, Miles Ellingham and many more top writers, and it's had scoops mentioned by the Keir Starmer and Private Eye Magazine. If you live in London and you want to understand your city better - and feel more connected with your fellow Londoners - then please join our free mailing list and tell your friends. https://lnkd.in/eF76jM3K
About us
Founded to inspire a renaissance in high quality journalism in the UK, Mill Media has received financial backing from Sir Mark Thompson, the former head of the BBC and New York Times, and has been described as "one of the most interesting and impressive media startups of the last decade" by the FT's John Burn-Murdoch. Our journey started when Joshi Herrmann founded The Mill as a one-man-band in June 2020, a few months into the pandemic. The idea was very simple: would people start valuing and paying for local news again if it was done in a completely different way? More in-depth; more nuanced; with stories that were more enjoyable to read and weren’t covered in horrible advertising. From there, we have grown into a fully-fledged media company. We now have have publications in four cities – including The Tribune in Sheffield and The Post in Liverpool and The Dispatch in Birmingham – and more than 100,000 people have joined our mailing lists. Crucially, more than 7,000 paying members pay for and support our journalism, come to our events and shape what we cover. In 2023, we raised money from a group of investors including CNN chief executive Sir Mark Thompson, media investor Turi Munthe, the leading economist Dame Diane Coyle and Axios publisher Nicholas Johnston. Thompson told the Guardian: “I’m backing The Mill because of the exceptional quality of its journalism and because it’s such an interesting and encouraging initiative. Britain’s cities need great commercially-sustainable journalism to inform the public and hold powerful institutions to account. That’s what The Mill and its sister publications were founded to do, and what they are consistently achieving.”
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- Newspaper Publishing
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- 11-50 employees
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- Manchester
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- Privately Held
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- 2021
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Project Director, High Sreets & Markets | B2B Marketing &, Business Development Director
Really enjoying the newish online newspaper The Londoner, part of Mill Media who also launched The Post in Liverpool. It’s a great way to read in-depth city-wide stories which rarely get covered elsewhere. Recently there’s been a piece on Oxford St and the latest plans for its future. which included a quote from Westminster Council that they “…don't agree with the premise that the high street is inevitably going to die” https://lnkd.in/ecJT8Sp2 #highstreets #localmedia #London
Does Sadiq Khan have a plan for Oxford Street?
the-londoner.co.uk
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🚨 We're very excited to welcome Moya Lothian-McLean and Robbie Armstrong to the team, who will be heading up our new title in Glasgow, launching next month. Moya comes from Novara Media and has written from the The New York Times and gal-dem.com. Robbie has made documentaries and shows for the BBC and written for Vittles and The Guardian. Moya told Press Gazette: “I’ve been raving about Mill Media ever since I first stumbled across them – I’m a paid up subscriber to multiple Mill publications! It’s become apparent they’re doing something very exciting in the media landscape, which is part of a push to revive long-form, rich journalism at a local level. Reading Mill Media pieces made me feel excited and envious. It’s the kind of work every journalist wants to be doing. When the call came, I had to answer it!" https://lnkd.in/ePzn5BUZ
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It is an inevitable risk of the 24-hour news cycle that those reporting events, desperate for new information, lead the story or step into it, rather than report it. We saw it, of course, on 7 October: those who travelled with terrorists to report on their actions were part of the conspiracy. And there's a risk that, needing new information, journalists, look at change, any change, as a good thing, because it gives them a new ingredient to present to the masses. Is that why we have a 'liberal' media? That bad news and complaint journalism is easier than reporting on the status quo and how we need to get on with life? The best journalism is surely that which simply reports events, and proffers sufficiently broad information to allow the reader to become better informed and able to form a personal view. But we are lazy, and we read the media which we believe will give us the shortcut to the opinion that we'd like to hold. And then we read the newspaper that we think that we should read in order to hold such views. Long, slow, journalism, when it's offered by Joshi Herrmann and Mill Media and the like, forces the reader to think for themselves and form their own opinions. We should cherish those chances of independent thought, without somebody trying to ram their ideas of what's right and wrong down our throats.
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A must-read long read...
After four years of publishing long reads, it was surreal and very nice to read a long read about *us* this weekend. For the piece, Rachel Cooke interviewed me and four other members of the Mill Media team and made trips to our Manchester HQ and our team in Sheffield. The intro, focusing on my true passion in life, is 👌 "I’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." If you're new to us and you like the sound of what we're doing, please head to our site to see our job ads - the London roles have six days left to the deadline. https://lnkd.in/e4rMzYfT
Straight to your inbox: meet the journalists shaking up local UK news
theguardian.com
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📢 Just 10 days left to apply for our two Staff Writer positions in London! We're on the lookout for talented writers who are passionate about bringing US-magazine style journalism to the UK. If you have the skills and vision to make it happen, we want to hear from you! https://lnkd.in/eRDfyGGF
We’re hiring two staff writers in London
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We just moved into a new Mill Media office - very cute. If you'd like to come and join this team, we have four jobs closing this Sunday in Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool and Birmingham. Please share with talented media friends. https://lnkd.in/eiNcMCUP
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Join our founder Joshi Herrmann in Manchester on Monday, July 1st, for a live election edition of The News Meeting podcast with James Harding, the editor of Tortoise, former Times and BBC executive and long time fan of The Mill. There will be additional special guests. Get your free tickets here: https://lnkd.in/emThkknN
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'Nimble, disciplined and different: How The Mill is swimming against the tide of journalism hardships' 💁♀️ Great piece about us by Jacob Granger for Journalism.co.uk. 'Last week Mill Media announced that further expansion is on its way in Glasgow this summer, and in London in autumn, following last year's group investment valuing the company at £1.75m. It is hiring for eleven roles in the next six months as well.' https://lnkd.in/exqV_f_9
Nimble, disciplined and different: How The Mill is swimming against the tide of journalism hardships
journalism.co.uk