London has a new newspaper

The Londoner is a new quality newspaper for London, delivered via email. We send fantastic local stories direct to your inbox several times a week, covering a different topic every time, along with our best recommendations for things to do and see in the city.

We believe in quality rather than quantity and we won't waste your time with "clickbait" stories about celebrities or annoying pop-up ads. Our focus is on great writing, proper investigative journalism and thoughtful commentary on how London is changing.

If that sounds like your kind of thing, please join our free mailing list by entering your email below.

What we do

Founded in October 2024, our mission is to tell the many amazing stories of London. That means going deeper and wider than the coverage you see in the national press, and it means introducing you to tales and characters that you just wouldn't encounter in the mainstream media.

One key focus for us is hard-hitting investigative journalism that exposes wrongdoing. On our first day, we published an investigation into a Labour MP that was mentioned by the prime minister and later covered by Private Eye. We've also dug into never-ending fires at illegal waste dumps and challenged a deeply misleading book about London's migrant communities.

But covering London is about much more than that. It's about connecting readers to stories they might not encounter in their daily lives, like meeting the people who spend all night cleaning dust from the tube tracks or the loyal patrons of London's last dog racing track. We visited the restaurant at the centre of a social media storm and met the cleaners who feel invisible in the grand offices of the City.

Our job is to make sure our readers are the best informed Londoners in the city, so we publish plenty of stories about transport, housing and education too. We have looked into why the Elizabeth Line is underperforming, what the future of Oxford Street is, and why London isn't building enough family homes.

On top of all that, we also send great recommendations for places to eat, drink and go out in London, plus tips on what shows to book before they sell out. Many of those things are only sent out via email and don't go on our website, so make sure you join our email list now if you want to stay in the loop.

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The team 

We’re led by former Evening Standard feature writer Joshi Herrmann, who is the founder of our parent company Mill Media. Our staff writers are Hannah Williams, who has written for the New Yorker and the Guardian, Miles Ellingham, who used to work for the Financial Times, and Andrew Kersley, who has broken big scoops for the Observer and the Sunday Times.

We've also published fantastic stories by some of the leading writers in the country, including David James Smith, Zing Tsjeng, David Aaronovitch and Imogen West-Knights. To write for us, please check out our pitching page.

We are going to be funded primarily by readers via paid memberships, a model that has been a great success for our Mill Media stablemates, who all publish a mix of free and paywalled journalism. We'll announce when we are turning on paid subscriptions soon, and fear not: we will always have a lot of journalism that goes out for free.

But for now, please join our free mailing list and share our site with friends. Want to help us out even more? If you know a great London-specific story that no-one is talking about, please get in touch.