Category Archives: London

MurderMap: London Homicide Reported Direct from The Old Bailey

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"The Murder Map project aims to create the first ever comprehensive picture of homicide in the modern city. On its completion, our online database will contain details of every murder and manslaughter committed in London from the crimes of Jack the Ripper to the present day. It is based on our unique archive of homicide cases – the product of thousands of hours spent by skilled and dedicated crime reporters in the courtrooms of the Old Bailey."

paidContent:UK: The Time Must Finally Be Now For Grassroots Media

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Patrick Smith: "The relaunched Evening Standard still offers very little on a local, district level online. In a city made up of inter-connected but often distinct boroughs, it surely makes sense to offer Londoners something relevant to the specific areas they live in. The Standard should become an umbrella for local blogs and news start-ups—a platform for local people to write news about their area."

I’ve Said Too Much: Are we buying this anymore?

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Lloyd Shepherd responds to David Simon's Guardian piece: "[It’s] perhaps instructive that London, a city many times bigger than Baltimore, has no publication with the same news values as the Baltimore Sun, and is rather served by a right-wing rag aimed at the suburbs and three freesheets with the emphasis on gossip and entertainment. Local professional journalism could die in London and, you know what? No-one would notice. Literally no-one."

Lynne Featherstone MP: Is there too much news?

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Hornsey & Wood Green MP Lynne Featherstone: "If you take my own home patch of Haringey - it's been a council with more than its fair share of scandals and tragedies over the years, but it's also been exceptionally rare for any of the local newspapers to have broken news based on investigative reporting. I don't blame the journalists generally - I know how many words have to be written in how few hours - but in the case of Baby P it was largely only when the case went national, bringing in national news organisations, that journalists started shedding the light on all sorts of things. ... [T]here is a news glut. But also - there is a real paucity of much news too. Now if someone can make a business model out of that local reporting..."

Comment is Free: Simon Fletcher: Blogs close the news gap

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"Twice in the past month [Andrew] Gilligan has used the platform of the Standard to attack the City Hall bloggers ... The line was that the blogs were an amateur joke. But you don't take the time and space in a mass-circulation paper to repeatedly bash an irrelevance. They are a target precisely because they are doing something interesting and relevant."