By a member of the Hull THE FIRST weekly newspaper in Britain to be ren by a trades council has just latinched in Hull. Hüll News, with 24 tabloid pages, will appear on news-stands throughout the city in mid-October.
eight-page DEDI edition was produced last week, with the aim of building cireulation and atracting advertising.
20,000 weekly sales by the end ol the year.
In city of nearty 300,000, nearly evervone who , is eligible votes Labour, this target seems reasonably realistic The only "competition' is the Hull Daily Mail and its weekly, the Hull Times. Coming the same stable as the national Daily Mail, the editorial line of these rags is not hard to guess.
Hull News will report on and examine day to odi happenings in the city from a broad left-wing viewpoint. Editorial policy and control will lie with the fuf: hodv the trades council, and will be discussed at regular monthiy meetings..
The trades COuneil which has wide representation left-wing -wues, . has "DEE newspaper management members of the Huli News Group itself, to which a number of professional journalists trave offered practical help and which is an open body.
The pilot edition includes articles by left-wing journalist James Cameron, Labour MPs Frank Allaun and tony Benn. and local playwright Alan rialer, as well as by local speedway and rugby league stars.
Also published is poem on youth struggle, by "An E-grade Sausage".
The trades council about $25,000 in advertising and DoRatOns success of Huli News.
We want to syndicate the paper's feature columns to other trades ( councils and to National ! Unien of Journalists' branches, so that they might attempt SHARI ventures.
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