Jul 21, 2021Journalists & the peopleSocial Spider CIC’s Managing Director, David Floyd, with the fourth in a series of blogs on the future of local journalism — and how it doesn’t have to be rubbish The fourth of these blogs moves from the question of print vs digital to look at the changing relationship(s) between…Local News7 min read
Dec 16, 2020Coming soon in 2021: Barnet PostEditor Bella Saltiel on the online launch of Social Spider CIC’s fifth local title We’re excited to announce that Social Spider CIC, is launching a new free, independent, community news publication covering the London Borough of Barnet early next year. Barnet Post will launch online in February, initially publishing at…Local News2 min read
Sep 10, 2020Print vs digitalSocial Spider CIC’s Managing Director, David Floyd, with the third in a series of blogs on the future of local journalism — and how it doesn’t have to be rubbish The third of these blogs moves on from the question of what local news is for (now) to the ongoing…Local News7 min read
Jun 10, 2020What is local news for (now)?Social Spider CIC’s Managing Director, David Floyd, with the second in a series of blogs on the future of local journalism — and how it doesn’t have to be rubbish Local news is facing an existential crisis. My previous post looked at the way that corporate local news publishers are…Local News8 min read
May 20, 2020Broken (local) newsSocial Spider CIC’s Managing Director, David Floyd, with the first of a series of blogs on the future of local journalism — and how it doesn’t have to be rubbish Most business activity has been negatively affected by Covid-19 but, for the news media, the crisis has been a perfect…Local News5 min read
Mar 16, 2020Meet TCP’s Membership Ambassadors!As you may have heard, this month at Tottenham Community Press (TCP) we are focusing on a membership campaign which we have kick started. We gave a little teaser earlier in the week that we would be revealing our Membership Ambassadors to you for which the time has now come…3 min read
Mar 3, 2020TCP Membership CampaignThis month we at Tottenham Community Press have launched a campaign in order to boost and promote our much needed newspaper. TCP has been providing the Tottenham community with local news for over four years now. We have highlighted some great events and projects happening in the area, held power…Community News2 min read
Nov 14, 2019We’re looking for a Head of Community News Operations!We are hiring a new Head of Community News Operations to join the Social Spider CIC team and help us take our innovative social enterprise model for independent local journalism to the next level. This will be a full time role based at our offices in Walthamstow, London. …Journalism2 min read
Oct 31, 2019A recipe for success: baking engagement into your journalism business modelAs UK Ambassador for the Engaged Journalism Accelerator, I have been tasked with running two meet-ups in the UK; to create opportunities for practitioners of engaged journalism to meet face-to-face and share skills, knowledge and create a network of support. As Social Spider is based in London, it made sense…Journalism6 min read
Sep 2, 2019The messy business of funding the newsMark Brown contemplates the funding challenges for local news. It’s amazing to be making three community newspapers, that reflect the wishes, aspirations, dreams and fears of communities. If you count our national mental health magazine One in Four, which we retired in 2014, and various magazines with young people and…Journalism6 min read