Joshi Herrmann
@joshiherrmann.bsky.social
millmedia.bsky.social editor/founder. Interested in #localjournalism and low-stakes media drama.
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Breaking news: The ruling deals a blow to Donald Trump’s attempts to use the Department of Justice to punish two of his political opponents. on.ft.com/43NbWvO
November 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Breaking news: The ruling deals a blow to Donald Trump’s attempts to use the Department of Justice to punish two of his political opponents. on.ft.com/43NbWvO
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Is there a game on? Oh… I was reading this great @millmedia.bsky.social piece about the lost history of local newspapers in Manchester and environs:
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
The clattering, chaotic, romantic world of Greater Manchester’s lost newspapers
What happens when a community loses its champion?
manchestermill.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Is there a game on? Oh… I was reading this great @millmedia.bsky.social piece about the lost history of local newspapers in Manchester and environs:
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
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In August, 25,000 kilograms of ‘toxic’ tar was spilled in the Thames. Why was no-one told?
This is a saga of broken valves, anonymous whistleblowers and hundreds of undisclosed oil spills.
My investigation for @londonermag.bsky.social
www.the-londoner.co.uk/how-25-000-k...
This is a saga of broken valves, anonymous whistleblowers and hundreds of undisclosed oil spills.
My investigation for @londonermag.bsky.social
www.the-londoner.co.uk/how-25-000-k...
How 25,000 kilograms of ‘toxic’ tar was spilled in the Thames
'You start to think: hang on, if that’s floating in the water, what's that giving off?'
www.the-londoner.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 10:28 AM
In August, 25,000 kilograms of ‘toxic’ tar was spilled in the Thames. Why was no-one told?
This is a saga of broken valves, anonymous whistleblowers and hundreds of undisclosed oil spills.
My investigation for @londonermag.bsky.social
www.the-londoner.co.uk/how-25-000-k...
This is a saga of broken valves, anonymous whistleblowers and hundreds of undisclosed oil spills.
My investigation for @londonermag.bsky.social
www.the-londoner.co.uk/how-25-000-k...
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What have we lost? “Something hard-to-define but powerful” writes Jack Walton. “The sense that a particular place matters; The knowledge that a group of people are going to work every day to chronicle not just any little corner of the planet, but your corner.”
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
The clattering, chaotic, romantic world of Greater Manchester’s lost newspapers
What happens when a community loses its champion?
manchestermill.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
What have we lost? “Something hard-to-define but powerful” writes Jack Walton. “The sense that a particular place matters; The knowledge that a group of people are going to work every day to chronicle not just any little corner of the planet, but your corner.”
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
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Strong argument here for preserving the BBC, especially in a new world of AI agents telling us what we want to hear.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/jessica-ceci...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/jessica-ceci...
How the BBC can rebuild itself
Reeling from the Panorama crisis and with the future of its news operation threatened by AI that tells us only what we want to hear, it’s vital to have a national broadcaster that tells us what we nee...
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Strong argument here for preserving the BBC, especially in a new world of AI agents telling us what we want to hear.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/jessica-ceci...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/jessica-ceci...
This is a fantastic piece - full of joy as well as the obvious sadness.
The MEN is now the only local newsroom in Greater Manchester that has more than a handful of staff reporters, but go back 25 years and it would have been one of a dozen.
Our weekend read is the tale of what’s been lost.
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
Our weekend read is the tale of what’s been lost.
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
The clattering, chaotic, romantic world of Greater Manchester’s lost newspapers
What happens when a community loses its champion?
manchestermill.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
This is a fantastic piece - full of joy as well as the obvious sadness.
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If we succeed, we'll fulfil six pledges, chosen by our readers.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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It’s 2031. You’re a senior official in the Cabinet Office. A respiratory pandemic has broken out in China. You crack open the Hallett Inquiry recommendations to find out what to do and learn…
November 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
It’s 2031. You’re a senior official in the Cabinet Office. A respiratory pandemic has broken out in China. You crack open the Hallett Inquiry recommendations to find out what to do and learn…
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November 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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If @manchestermill.bsky.social gets 1,000 new pay-what-you-want subscribers in "the next few weeks" it will make good on a bunch of pledges, the first of which is "teach fact-checking in schools" 👍
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November 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
If @manchestermill.bsky.social gets 1,000 new pay-what-you-want subscribers in "the next few weeks" it will make good on a bunch of pledges, the first of which is "teach fact-checking in schools" 👍
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London’s unemployment rate keeps rising. We spoke to the people behind the statistics.
www.the-londoner.co.uk/there-are-a-...
www.the-londoner.co.uk/there-are-a-...
'There are a lot of fake roles being posted'
London’s unemployment rate keeps rising. Here, we speak to the people behind the statistics.
www.the-londoner.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
London’s unemployment rate keeps rising. We spoke to the people behind the statistics.
www.the-londoner.co.uk/there-are-a-...
www.the-londoner.co.uk/there-are-a-...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Great to see the rise of the Mill in Manchester as a source of quality local journalism. They're running a campaign where you can subscribe for any amount - follow the link below to find out more...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Great to see the rise of the Mill in Manchester as a source of quality local journalism. They're running a campaign where you can subscribe for any amount - follow the link below to find out more...
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🚨 We've just launched our first ever membership campaign - with six pledges chosen by our readers and a 50,000-copy print edition hitting the streets.
Please share with friends - and join up! New members can choose their price.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM
🚨 We've just launched our first ever membership campaign - with six pledges chosen by our readers and a 50,000-copy print edition hitting the streets.
Please share with friends - and join up! New members can choose their price.
manchestermill.co.uk
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More excellent reporting from the @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social as they work to track down Andrew Milne. And it starts with a really heartbreaking tale. It does feels like they’ve really broken any power this guy had over anyone… www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/after-beckys...
After Becky’s mum died, it was time to sell her childhood home. Then Andrew Milne got in touch
Plus: As the search for answers continues, The Tribune takes to the road
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
More excellent reporting from the @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social as they work to track down Andrew Milne. And it starts with a really heartbreaking tale. It does feels like they’ve really broken any power this guy had over anyone… www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/after-beckys...
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So sorry to hear the sad news about Rachel, who was the most brilliantly versatile, warm, perceptive writer (& lovely colleague). And way too young for this. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
So sorry to hear the sad news about Rachel, who was the most brilliantly versatile, warm, perceptive writer (& lovely colleague). And way too young for this. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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An exclusive in today’s
@liverpoolpost.bsky.social:
Literature festival Writing On The Wall is threatening to dismiss nearly all its staff after a WhatsApp group sharing jokes and gripes about the organisation was found on a computer
www.livpost.co.uk/writing-on-t...
@liverpoolpost.bsky.social:
Literature festival Writing On The Wall is threatening to dismiss nearly all its staff after a WhatsApp group sharing jokes and gripes about the organisation was found on a computer
www.livpost.co.uk/writing-on-t...
Their bosses read their WhatsApps. Then their jobs were on the line
Exclusive: Literature festival Writing on the Wall says employees committed gross misconduct. Staff say they’ve had their privacy “violated”
www.livpost.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 7:39 AM
An exclusive in today’s
@liverpoolpost.bsky.social:
Literature festival Writing On The Wall is threatening to dismiss nearly all its staff after a WhatsApp group sharing jokes and gripes about the organisation was found on a computer
www.livpost.co.uk/writing-on-t...
@liverpoolpost.bsky.social:
Literature festival Writing On The Wall is threatening to dismiss nearly all its staff after a WhatsApp group sharing jokes and gripes about the organisation was found on a computer
www.livpost.co.uk/writing-on-t...
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“You can imagine, as a 90-something living on her own, she read that with outright panic.”
Great to see BBC Radio 4 following up our leasehold investigation on You and Yours today. (Link here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/..., first story)
Great to see BBC Radio 4 following up our leasehold investigation on You and Yours today. (Link here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/..., first story)
You and Yours - Leasehold Homes, Black Friday Sales and the UK Plastics Pact - BBC Sounds
What happens when leasehold homeowners are asked to buy their freehold?
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
“You can imagine, as a 90-something living on her own, she read that with outright panic.”
Great to see BBC Radio 4 following up our leasehold investigation on You and Yours today. (Link here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/..., first story)
Great to see BBC Radio 4 following up our leasehold investigation on You and Yours today. (Link here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/..., first story)
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Huge respect for the 2% of Celeb Traitors viewers who think that David Olusoga played the best game.
November 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Huge respect for the 2% of Celeb Traitors viewers who think that David Olusoga played the best game.
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Reach has apologised and will pay "substantial damages" to Bob Vylan frontman Pascal Robinson after the Manchester Evening News wrongly reported he had "performed Nazi salutes on stage" pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...
Manchester Evening News pays 'substantial damages' to Bob Vylan frontman
Reach to pay "substantial damages" to Bob Vylan frontman after Manchester Evening News wrongly reported he had "performed Nazi salutes on stage".
pressgazette.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Reach has apologised and will pay "substantial damages" to Bob Vylan frontman Pascal Robinson after the Manchester Evening News wrongly reported he had "performed Nazi salutes on stage" pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...
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3. Bit of a jarring shift in tone from the above, but Ophira Gottlieb's Mill piece about the Christmas-obsessed Councillor Pat Kearney is packed with perfect lines of writing.
manchestermill.co.uk/big-wheel-pa...
manchestermill.co.uk/big-wheel-pa...
Meet the man taking on Manchester's 'Christmas Refusniks'
'I would start Christmas in August if I was allowed to'
manchestermill.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 8:31 AM
3. Bit of a jarring shift in tone from the above, but Ophira Gottlieb's Mill piece about the Christmas-obsessed Councillor Pat Kearney is packed with perfect lines of writing.
manchestermill.co.uk/big-wheel-pa...
manchestermill.co.uk/big-wheel-pa...
Thanks for sharing @rorycj.bsky.social - and well done to the @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social team. Read their note today and join as a member to get behind them.
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/sometimes-it... I wrote last week about two villains and one hero in the battle between truth and lies. Well here’s another hero - the Sheffield Tribune, one of the Mill stable of independent news sites, had the courage to publish an important story despite legal threats..
Sometimes it’s worth the risk
“We will definitely bring proceedings for Defamation and Malicious Falsehood if you publish such complete and malicious lies.”
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Thanks for sharing @rorycj.bsky.social - and well done to the @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social team. Read their note today and join as a member to get behind them.
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“Bowing down to threats isn’t in The Tribune’s DNA, and doing so would mean giving up on our journalistic mission.
“We can only take that approach because we have the backing of our paying members, whose subscriptions fund all of our work and give us the confidence that we can take on all comers.”
“We can only take that approach because we have the backing of our paying members, whose subscriptions fund all of our work and give us the confidence that we can take on all comers.”
Sometimes it’s worth the risk
“We will definitely bring proceedings for Defamation and Malicious Falsehood if you publish such complete and malicious lies.”
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM
“Bowing down to threats isn’t in The Tribune’s DNA, and doing so would mean giving up on our journalistic mission.
“We can only take that approach because we have the backing of our paying members, whose subscriptions fund all of our work and give us the confidence that we can take on all comers.”
“We can only take that approach because we have the backing of our paying members, whose subscriptions fund all of our work and give us the confidence that we can take on all comers.”