Saddleworth Independent and The Correspondent are to become online only, following a change of ownership.
They are now part of the the newly-formed GGC Media, which was set up by Gary and Gemma Carter.
Gary Carter will be known by many in the North of England as The Sun’s rugby league reporter. During his 20 year career he’s also worked at the Lancashire Evening Telegraph and Tameside Reporter.
The pair said that the Saddleworth Independent and The Correspondent, which covers the Tameside borough to the east of Manchester, have gone online as a result of the current financial climate.
They explained:
“[…] this is not the end of Saddleworth Independent or The Correspondent.
“Instead, we will work with existing readers while attracting new ones to our platforms with the stories we generate.
“The titles have become really familiar and popular in their respective communities because of the focus it gives to them.
“The online world is ever-growing and we believe we can find a place which people will want to visit regularly with our style of local news reporting, while also holding people in authority to account.
“We are excited to be in a position to take the titles forward in an increasingly technological world. We believe we can take them to a new level.”
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Saddleworth Independent was one of 56 European news operations to receive cash from an emergency fund set up by The European Journalist Centre (EJC) in partnership with the Facebook Journalism Project (FJP).
