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The first pilot print issue came out in 2006. The idea for the project was born out of the now closed
Basement social centre in Manchester. The founders wrote "A spectre now haunts the world: a global commercial media system dominated by a small number of huge corporations. It is a system that works
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to advance the cause of the global market and promote commercial values, while denigrating journalism and culture not conducive to the immediate bottom line or long-run corporate interests. Ten years ago in the UK, the media was spread across 50 companies. Now, when its down to four
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is unusual in that it practices a collective editing process. This means that instead of having one editor who makes major decisions alone, the approval of sub-editors and management collective members is required. This is a similar method of organizing to the New York-based
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The newspaper had a quarterly print run of 10,000, distributed free around the city of
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style paper, which aims to address issues the mainstream local media neglect via investigative journalism. It focuses on a number of areas its members consider important, particularly local democracy,
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public meetings) for local groups to post events on. On the website the collective encourage new writers to get involved and for local people to send in their stories.
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The original paper was designed as a national paper with local sections for different cities. It was relaunched in 2008 as a local
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