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Mill Media has launched The Glasgow Bell on Ghost

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The Press Gazette has the story…

Mill Media to launch Glasgow title The Bell on Monday - Press Gazette

The new Glasgow-focused title from local newsletter start-up Mill Media will be named The Bell, Press Gazette can reveal.

The new title will begin to publish on Monday (30 September), initially without a paywall, and aims to release new content three times a week.

As previously reported by Press Gazette The Bell is staffed by two full-time employees: former Novara Media contributing editor Moya Lothian-McLean and former freelance Robbie Armstrong.

They will be supported by Glaswegian writer Ophira Gottlieb, who already writes for Mill Media, and former Slate managing editor June Thomas who edit some stories and share her expertise with the team.

Stories have already been commissioned from Scottish journalists including freelances Dani Garavelli and Catriona Stewart, and Holyrood magazine writer Margaret Taylor.

The Bell will be Mill Media’s first new launch away from Substack, the newsletter platform on which the venture originally started in Manchester in 2020.

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Exciting stuff! I hope this goes well.

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First article is live and 1,000 subscribers signed up - local long-form content is a winning concept…

Why we’re launching a new newspaper in Glasgow (glasgowbell.co.uk)

Journalism and writing of serious talent …

All of this to say: we love a yarn. Glasgow is a city of storytellers and street bards, of fantastical fables and embellished tales. It’s also a place of congruence and incongruities, where the contradictions are part of its charm. It’s where the Highlands and Lowlands meet, where heavy industry and hedonistic revelry jostle, where the Victorian rubs up against the modern, where greys and verdant greens smudge together. It’s where the Billy Boys and Norman Conks once fought, where Celtic and Rangers fans still do, where Labour and SNP play tug o’ war, where the gallus is coupled with just a glint of gloom.

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