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GAME CHANGER
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Editor's Letter
September 2020
H ey all you cool cats and kittens!
We’ve missed you. Yes, our lifestyle titles have been out of action since YOLO became furlough but that’s enough talk about the virus –I think we can all safely say, we’ve heard enough of the C word for one year.
We weren’t total sloths during lockdown. Of course, we watched Tiger King. No, we didn’t attempt to bake sourdough. But we have had this bun in the oven! It’s with great pleasure I introduce The South Londoner: an extravaganza of entertainment, food and drink, wellbeing and local faces! And the stories are all set south of the river, naturally.
A whopping 26,000 free copies are being distributed across the area – over 15,000 door-to-door, nearly 7,000 in all major supermarkets, and 4,000 hand-delivered to local businesses.
Throughout the pandemic, we supported local businesses by giving away free advertisements on our Southwark News website to all independent companies. It has to be said, you guys have been pretty inspiring these past few months, and in this magazine we’re metaphorically clapping for you from our Juliet balconies.
Now, onto more pressing matters: if you’re in the market for craft beer, a proper flat white or a conversation with anyone who doesn’t answer to Alexa or Siri, then grab your facemask and your hand sanitiser and follow us as we uncover everything that’s going on right on your doorstep.Laura Burgoine, Editor
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Our flagship publication, The Southwark News, is London’s only independent, paid-for newspaper.
Launched in 1987, we are a dedicated, close-knit team, bringing you accurate and balanced journalism every week in print and every day online. We have continued to run every week throughout the pandemic, and upped our circulation to send out 500 free copies every week to shielded people, isolating in their homes.
We are based in Bermondsey, in the old Biscuit Factory. We are proud to be a London Living Wage employer. We pledged at the start of the lockdown that none of our team would be made redundant, and we have now brought back all of our team, to continue bringing you news, views and local stories.
We also publish the popular magazines, the Bermondsey Biscuit & Rotherhithe Docker – next out in October – and Urban Fox – next out in November, along with the weekly Greenwich & Lewisham Weekender.
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Where to find this magazine:
We print 26,000 copies of The South Londoner.
15,646 copies are delivered to local households
6,700 copies are stocked in 33 main supermarkets across Southwark and Lambeth
3654 copies are hand-delivered to hundreds of local venues and businesses
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