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Published: 03 December 2009 09:00
Students from Goldsmiths, University of London are launching their new independent news website this month, for the community living and working along the East London Line route.
www.eastlondonlines.co.uk is a multimedia news website shadowing a transport link rather than servicing an area, giving residents of Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Lewisham and Croydon a new, relevant up-to-the-minute news source and creating a new east London line community.
Utilising all the latest internet gadgetry including video reports, RSS feeds and tweeted updates of the stories the reporters are covering, the new site is giving readers a fully rounded sense of what’s happening in their area.
The project is unusual as the news site is not run for profit; instead EastLondonLines provides a teaching space for journalism students during term time and will raise money from adverts to provide bursaries for students to run the site during the vacations. This will lower the barrier for those students who want to work in journalism but cannot afford to work for free.
EastLondonLines.co.uk is a social enterprise, providing an independent news service and a service to local democracy at a time when local news is under threat. It also, via the listings pages known as the “Green Pages engine”, will help businesses find customers, unemployed people find jobs, flats find tenants, gigs find punters and help Jo Soap swap his old computer for a bike. Advertising on the site will be both easy and cheap. So that it is as available for club nights and student shows as it is for stall-holders on Broadway Market. It is doing something that no other publication does: providing a virtual link, to go with a transport link. Everything on the Green Pages is close enough to walk to from an East London Line station.
The site has just launched and when the East London Line opens in May 2010, EastLondonLines.co.uk will begin to charge a minimal amount to advertisers to begin to collect money for the student bursaries.
Notes to Editors
To speak to someone about listings or advertising on EastLondonLines please e-mail: Ads@eastlondonlines.co.uk or to submit a news story e-mail news@eastlondonlines.co.uk
For further information
Sarah Empey, Press & PR Manager, 020 7919 7909 or s.empey@gold.ac.uk www.eastlondonlines.co.uk
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