Joshi Herrmann
@joshih.bsky.social
millmedia.bsky.social editor/founder. Interested in #localjournalism and low-stakes media drama.
The hollowing out of local newspapers Journalistic performance decline and content homogenisation at a major UK publisher via @simonabisiani.bsky.social @agnesgulyas.bsky.social @bheravi.bsky.social h/t @joshih.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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"Asked if the £5m figure was accurate, Arday clarified to the Guardian that the money was raised with the help of “many fundraising collectives over a two-decade period”. When asked to identify other people…Arday said he had signed NDAs preventing him from disclosing that information." 🤔🤔🤔
Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor
Jason Arday was regarded as an academic superstar, but then questions about his work prompted scrutiny of his backstory and counterclaims of racism
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It's kind of impressive than Infantino has managed to find a form of corruption so blatant and extreme that sports administrators are willing to draw a line despite the offer of massive bribes.
Is this this beefiest tweet ever sent by a member of the House of Lords? My old boss letting loose over this story www.the-londoner.co.uk/falling-stan...
The convicted fraudster George Cottrell transferred a total of more than $2m to his mother, Fiona Cottrell, in the days before her 2024 donations to Reform UK, the Guardian understands. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK
Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son
theguardian.com
On the eve of the election, I interviewed @bevcraig.bsky.social, along with my colleague @jackdulhanty.bsky.social. She’s very different to Burnham - more comfortable with detail, less comfortable making TikToks and selling a vision. But she’s NOT David Moyes. manchestermill.co.uk/bev-craig-wa...
Bev Craig wants to succeed Andy Burnham, not imitate him
Labour’s candidate for mayor won’t rely on ‘10-second TikToks’ but says she can win on substance
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I wrote a bid for this fund to help save an arts organisation at what was a very hard time. If this is indeed what has happened, I think everyone in the culture sector should be as frustrated as I am.
Joshi Herrmann@joshih.bsky.social · last wk.New Sacha Lord reporting from @theipaper.com: “An ally of Andy Burnham shut down an events firm after it was told to repay £400,000 of taxpayers’ cash.” It reveals Primary Event Solutions was liquidated in February. So the public money is gone.
New Sacha Lord reporting from @theipaper.com: “An ally of Andy Burnham shut down an events firm after it was told to repay £400,000 of taxpayers’ cash.” It reveals Primary Event Solutions was liquidated in February. So the public money is gone.
This week's Tribune briefing is now out! Featuring: 🗞️ Is a ‘South Yorkshire mafia’ now running the cabinet? ✈️ Doncaster Sheffield Airport bids for military transport work 🚨 Row over £65m police black hole 🪳 Moor Market traders to get cockroach compensation 🏡 Plus, home of the week, and things to do
Is a ‘South Yorkshire mafia’ now running the cabinet?
Plus, Doncaster Sheffield Airport in talks for military work
sheffieldtribune.co.uk
A great (and rather depressing) read on the decline of the London Evening Standard www.the-londoner.co.uk/falling-stan...
Falling Standards: How Evgeny Lebedev saved - then sank - London’s newspaper
‘Everyone was being run ragged by his absolutely ludicrous requests and tantrums’
the-londoner.co.uk
Lebedev's press guy wrote in his email that "with any bit of luck JH has exposed his own embarrassing episode in the Standard’s history". His luck is in - it's the intro.
Joshi Herrmann@joshih.bsky.social · 2w agoIn 2013, I ‘leaked’ George Osborne’s budget and nearly got fired for it. A few years later, Osborne was appointed as the paper’s editor, another blow to its credibility. I’ve written the sad/mad inside story of the fall of the Evening Standard - enjoy! www.the-londoner.co.uk/falling-stan...
Enioyed this from @joshih.bsky.social on the decline and fall of The Evening Standard www.the-londoner.co.uk/falling-stan...
Falling Standards: How Evgeny Lebedev saved - then sank - London’s newspaper
‘Everyone was being run ragged by his absolutely ludicrous requests and tantrums’
the-londoner.co.uk
An excellent long read on the slow death of the London Evening Standard via @londonermag.bsky.social www.the-londoner.co.uk/falling-stan...
Falling Standards: How Evgeny Lebedev saved - then sank - London’s newspaper
‘Everyone was being run ragged by his absolutely ludicrous requests and tantrums’
the-londoner.co.uk
All fine and dandy, but much of Reach's local/regional original content is produced by BBC-funded reporting which you can't paywall because others can use it (eg, manchestermill.co.uk/why-the-mill...)
Press Gazette@pressgazette.co.uk · 2w agoReach is “moving away from volume” in its editorial output to focus on original content as results for the first half of 2026 showed traffic and revenue down Reach has set its “near-term focus” on digital subscriptions, “quality video” and AI licensing deals pressgazette.co.uk/news/reach-m...
On Times Radio just now, @adamboulton.bsky.social asked me if people in Manchester are excited about No10 North. They are! I certainly am. As I wrote for @manchestermill.bsky.social recently: even if it's a gimmick, it's our gimmick. manchestermill.co.uk/number-10-no...
Number 10 North might be a gimmick, but it's our gimmick
Burnham's plans are very, very good for Manchester
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A spokesperson for Evening Standard owner Evgeny Lebedev says this piece is “a shameless attempt by a wannabe rival to denigrate London’s newspaper”, calling its main allegations “codswallop” made up by “disgruntled ex-colleagues”. We say it's worth a read. www.the-londoner.co.uk/falling-stan...
Falling Standards: How Evgeny Lebedev saved - then sank - London’s newspaper
‘Everyone was being run ragged by his absolutely ludicrous requests and tantrums’
the-londoner.co.uk
1) this is a great piece 2) I still I still have, somewhere in my inbox, the one-pager I wrote to my editors when I was at the diary in 2015, explaining the various ways in which the Londoner could become a digital product, which got roundly igonored by all involved lol
Joshi Herrmann@joshih.bsky.social · 2w agoIn 2013, I ‘leaked’ George Osborne’s budget and nearly got fired for it. A few years later, Osborne was appointed as the paper’s editor, another blow to its credibility. I’ve written the sad/mad inside story of the fall of the Evening Standard - enjoy! www.the-londoner.co.uk/falling-stan...
Cities dismantled their tram networks to become “motor cities of the future”. The result? You could travel further within 30 mins via public transport in 1957 than you can in 2026. Cities are seeking billions to rebuild networks. Incredible piece of work this.
The Exchange@theexchangeleeds.bsky.social · 2w agoIf you stood on Briggate at 8am on a weekday in 1957, and stood there again in 2026, in which year could you reach more of the city in half an hour? Samuel Bancroft has crunched the numbers. Since the 1950s, Leeds has got bigger - but the city has effectively shrunk.
In 2013, I ‘leaked’ George Osborne’s budget and nearly got fired for it. A few years later, Osborne was appointed as the paper’s editor, another blow to its credibility. I’ve written the sad/mad inside story of the fall of the Evening Standard - enjoy! www.the-londoner.co.uk/falling-stan...
Falling Standards: How Evgeny Lebedev saved - then sank - London’s newspaper
‘Everyone was being run ragged by his absolutely ludicrous requests and tantrums’
the-londoner.co.uk
New @instituteforgovernment.org.uk Inside Briefing podcast episode out now! With @manchestermill.bsky.social @joshih.bsky.social on Andy Burnham's first week as prime minister. www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/collection/p...
He wants to be adored – Burnham’s people-pleasing policy debut | Institute for Government
The Manchester Mill's Joshi Herrman joins the podcast team to explore Andy Burnham's first week as prime minister.
instituteforgovernment.org.uk
🎧NEW: Fascinating insights from @joshih.bsky.social @manchestermill.bsky.social on the @instituteforgovernment.org.uk podcast with @akashpaun.bsky.social @alexgathomas.bsky.social @hannahkeenan.bsky.social exploring Andy Burnham’s first week as prime minister podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
He wants to be adored – Burnham’s people-pleasing policy debut
Podcast Episode · Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government · 24 July · 44min
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Much has been made of this chart from @joshih.bsky.social showing rough sleeping went down in Greater Manchester after Burnham became mayor for a few years - but has then gone up every year for the last four.
Burnham has promised to end rough sleeping across the country. It was his biggest promise when he became mayor of Greater Manchester and he didn’t come close. Here are the numbers, as revealed by @manchestermill.bsky.social last month.
Great stuff 👏👏👏
Joshi Herrmann@joshih.bsky.social · 4w agoLove to see this - readers getting behind @abi-whist.bsky.social and The Post to help pay for the massive legal bills it incurred fighting off Laurence Westgaph, who launched a year long campaign to force Abi to reveal her sources. Aiming for 300 new or upgraded members. 11 days to go.
Rich Myers is Leeds' biggest export since Tom Zanetti. GetBaked, his bakery business, is huge, with viral cakes and £10m turnover. He's known as the 'UK's rudest baker' for his abrasive online exchanges. Thing is, a lot of them are made up, he reveals.
GetFaked: how a star baker confected his enemies
Rich Myers went viral for airing his haters online. Turns out they weren’t real
theexchange.news
Enjoyed my visit to parliament yesterday to talk about the serious challenge facing journalism from SLAPPs. All power to Baroness Tina Stowell and Sir John Whittingdale for their private members bills that would make it easier to throw out abusive lawsuits before costs become ruinous.
It’s sad for Senator Lindsey Graham that the last person he spoke to on this earth was the president who stole his soul. Read more of my take on Graham’s passing in Fresh Hell. tinabrown.substack.com/p/lindsey-gr...
Lindsey Graham’s Exit and the King’s Capitulation
It’s sad for Senator Lindsey Graham that the last person he spoke to on this earth was the president who stole his soul.
tinabrown.substack.com
Now that GMP have made arrests, legal proceedings are considered to be “active”, meaning The Mill is no longer able to report in detail on the UGM story. Please join us to support our journalism - it’s only possible because of our members. manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-vi...
Exclusive: Vice-chancellor George Holmes among those arrested on suspicion of fraud
The Mill understands the suspended university leader was held for questioning on Wednesday - along with his wife and a colleague
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