Tag Archives: Gareth Davies

Councils’ property deals are ‘gambling with public money’

Posted on December 4, 2018 by

Councils across England – including Croydon and Sutton – have between them borrowed billions of pounds of public money to finance the purchase of real estate and commercial properties, a policy which could place some at risk of financial collapse, … Continue reading →

Posted in Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Property, Richard Simpson, Simon Hall, Sutton Council | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Year Zero at Sadvertiser as local paper abandons archive

Posted on September 26, 2017 by

It’s as if nothing has happened in Croydon over the past 15 years, if the website of the Guildford-based Croydon Sadvertiser is anything to go by. The non-local paper, which abandoned its home town in 2013 to save a few … Continue reading →

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Former Advertiser reporter: ‘the paper is now beyond saving’

Posted on August 2, 2016 by

Gareth Davies, until recently the Croydon Advertiser’s chief reporter, has today supplemented his Friday night Twitter outburst about the decline of the newspaper with a detailed essay which picks apart the decade-long disinvestment in local journalism, and journalists, by the … Continue reading →

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Former reporter in bitter attack against ‘clickbait’ Advertiser

Posted on July 30, 2016 by

STEVEN DOWNES on an extraordinary Twitter outburst from a “heart broken” local newspaper journalist who says that redundancies and cut-backs at his old workplace have made things “really shit” The Croydon Sadvertiser is dead. It’s ceased to be. It’s pushing … Continue reading →

Posted in Clare Hilley, Croydon Advertiser, Croydon Guardian, Local media | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments