As part of the production segment of the journalism course at City we are producing weekly papers. My group has set up the Hackney Post to cover news, features, sport, art and business in the borough. While undertaking this project a lot of us have realised the huge gap in the market for an impartial view of the area. While the Hackney Gazette is obviously struggling with a small team and a small budget it makes little attempt to provide interesting and informed commentary and could easily double up as a Council factsheet. While the fate of struggling local papers is very sad, it would be far sadder if they made more of an effort to contribute something to the community. There has been more than one occassion when one of the Post's reporters has come up with a better take on the story than the Gazette, simply because they have put in the effort. Josh Loeb points this out in his excellent opinion piece.
My far less esteemed contributions are here: NME Awards after party report, Rock Against Racism, Leona Lewis's struggle to buy a house, Jews to give verbal consent to hospital treatment, Leona's Africa trip.
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