He accuses mayor of running a publication that competes unfairly by luring away advertising from his free monthly title
An editor has demanded that a local council should stop producing its fortnightly newsletter because it competes unfairly with his newspaper.
Keith Magnum, founder of the Hackney Citizen, says east London’s Hackney council is luring away advertising revenue from the local press with its Hackney Today.
“We call on you to halt the sale of advertising in the council’s fortnightly freesheet and on its website so that the borough’s news publishers can at least operate in a similar commercial environment to those in the vast majority of other London boroughs.”
“Hackney Today is still by far the most popular source of information in Hackney about the council, other local services and national policy changes, especially amongst older people and those on lower incomes.
Given the amount of change around housing, education and welfare reform it is more important than ever that this information reaches everyone in the borough.”
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