Community newspaper king Sir Ray Tindle is to launch another new title this week, this time in South London.
Sir Ray has launched a string of new hyperlocal weeklies over the last couple of years as the rest of the industry has reeled from the economic downturn.
His latest venture, The Lambeth Post, will hit the streets on Thursday.
An offshoot of the South London Press, the Post will be delivered free door to door within the Borough of Lambeth and available on pick-up around the area
The company plans to print more than 40,000 copies of the new title with door-to-door distribution around the 26,000 mark up to 15,000 available on pick-up.
Peter Edwards, managing director of the SLP said: “Our markets remain really challenging; in the face of a challenging market it is really good to take a positive step forward that will improve our position in the local marketplace and provide a better service to local readers and advertisers.
“Tindle Newspapers are the only local newspaper publisher not to have made any redundancies among journalists during this recession and this launch will help contribute to maintaining that position.
The Post’s circulation area will stretch from the Oxo Tower on the banks of the Thames to Streatham Vale in the south.
It will cover the area alongside the paid-for South London Press, which is published Tuesday and Friday.
The Press, London’s biggest selling local weekly newspaper, launched a new edition for nearby Brixton last Autumn.
Tindle Newspapers currently publishes more than 200 newspapers in England and Wales.
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No new journalists or subs though – bet the staff are looking forward to the extra work and no extra cash. At least the local pimps have somewhere else to put their ads. Real community newspaper ethos.
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This whole ‘Tindle has made no journalists redundant’ may be true, but it’s a smokescreen. An ongoing recruitment freeze means no journalists are being replaced when they leave, so there’s no need to make redundancies. Newsrooms are being depleted of bodies through natural wastage.
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I don’t see any other newspaper group make such commitment to non-redundancies as Tindle. They should be applauded for this most very public stance in the current climate. There are other groups who have an ongoing recruitment freeze AND making further redundancies. It’s easy to snigger Something witty, but I bet there are reporters and subs on titles in Newsquest and others fretting over their futures right now who think quite differently to you and glancing quite enviously towards Tindle and his employees.
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newshound, for your information, subs are journalists too. I assume you meant reporters and subs. It’s a common misconception beloved of most misguided management types.
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okdhack: i get paid sh*t and wouldn’t envy anyone who gets paid A LOT less than me, no matter what their employers are doing.
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oh well, having seen the lambeth post today i think it’s safe to say no one else is in trouble. what a pile of sh*te.
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