Source: International Business Times
The Manchester Mill media founder and editor Joshi Herrmann works in the offices of the online newspaper serving Greater Manchester AFP On the second floor of a London furniture store, three journalists are busy finalising the latest edition of a newsletter, covering everything from local foodbank funding to a neighbourhood cafe. The Slice is a local magazine and a family of four hyper-local online news websites which serve the east London borough of Tower Hamlets -- one of the UK's most diverse, but deprived, neighbourhoods. While local newspapers have been closing across the country, The Slice is "all about developing a model of local journalism that is financially sustainable in areas of deprivation", explained founder and editor Tabitha Stapley.
