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It seems an appropriate way to start, as it was the headline on the very first issue of the Camden New Journal back in 1982. Our paper was born out of a strike action which had lasted for more than a year – the ‘old’ Camden Journal having been shut down by its private company owners.
People marched through the streets to save the newspaper and the defiant journalists took the plunge and set up their own title. The ‘New’ in our title has stuck for more than 40 years in recognition of their determination that Camden should not lose its community voice.
Over the years, readers have been rewarded with a free, independent newspaper which has campaigned, scrutinised, investigated and entertained. The New Journal and later its sister title, the Islington Tribune, have won a cabinet full of awards and is known and admired across the readership areas and the north of the city. We have often been asked to start newspapers in Barnet, Har…