Why subscribe to New Journal+?

The Camden New Journal – the UK’s weekly newspaper of the year – is a local like few others.

It is not part of a big corporation. There are no highly-paid executives or faraway shareholders looking to profit on the basic need we all have for the provision of news and information.

A team of journalists has punched above its weight for more than 40 years, campaigning to protect vital public services and challenging those with the power to make decisions on our behalf. We have held institutions to account, helped people struggling to be heard and informed and, hopefully, entertained a little too along the way.

The Islington Tribune, our sister paper, has been doing the same for the past two decades.

It has all been free to read in our weekly print editions and website – where an e-reader ensures everybody has access to every word we’ve sent to press.

Our research, continued high circulation and pick-up confirms that people still highly value their physical copy in dispensers every Thursday and Friday.

Readers pick up their New Journal in a different way to the declining national newspapers, because they know the issues inside will affect them directly and the articles are never a regurgitation of what they have already heard on the TV or seen on the internet the night before.

This access to our daily and weekly stories will never change.

But the landscape is ever evolving, and the funding for this work is changing.

For so long, we have asked for nothing in return, other than your trust in telling your stories. Now the time has come to ask for your support.

We do not ask for donations – although these are always welcome.

Instead, we ask those who can afford to do so to consider becoming a paid subscriber to NewJournal+. It is our new subscription Substack and stands as the best opportunity for readers to help support our work going forward.

There will be a free Monday digest of the latest developments in Camden and Islington, emailed directly to you and available on this site.

Paid subscribers will then get extra interviews, long-form features and bonus material. This will go beyond what can physically be fitted into a 32 page print newspaper each week. They will also have access to our new politics column from Richard Osley and Isabel Loubser each weekend.

Most importantly, every paid subscription – and this is true whether you read every single word we publish or not – will be supporting and protecting our award-winning journalism. It will make sure we are here when you need us.

As has always been the case, every penny that comes in goes back into covering the costs of our journalism – not to drive up profits for a sports-car driving executive to count. Nobody ever got rich, but the New Journal and Tribune being there for the community in north London held greater importance.

In divided, difficult times, perhaps our role has never been important than now.

If you live in north London or are interested in supporting our work, please subscribe to get full access now:

What will appear in your inbox?

Every Monday, NewJournal+ will send you a digest from our team of reporters keeping you up to date with what’s been happening in north London.
Some posts will be shared to all, but paid subscribers will receive extra interviews and exclusive features.

Our new politics column will be appear on this site to paid subscribers, rather than an automatic email.

Paid subscribers will also have access to our archive of stories as it builds and be able to participate in the comments section.

You will also be able to read New Journal+ on the fast-growing Substack app, which you find here get the Substack app.

Note: the Camden New Journal and Islington Tribune newspapers, as well our sister title, the Westminster Extra, were set up in the spirit of a co-op. All money received goes directly into covering the costs of our journalism.

While its directors have a guiding hand, they act as stewards of the paper’s founding principles and daily operation, rather than owners. In fact, no individual owns the titles and they can never be sold to another company without a change to its constitution.