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