The day before our big campaign ended we hit our goal: 1,000 new members joining. Thank you to everyone who got involved. Now we've got to get cracking on those pledges! We've launched our new writers programme, and on Friday we'll be bringing you our first Good News Edition...

I've been really grateful for Tony's support as we've launched The Exchange, and it's great to see Media North mag picking up the story:

You’ve probably heard enough of us telling you why it would be great if you joined. But what if you could hear from the people who have already signed up about why they wanted to get involved?

We are sooooo close now. We can almost taste it. It just needs another 100 people to sign up with only days to go. Hit that link, get us there, and unlock five amazing pledges for Sheffield: www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/help-make-sh...

I'm very sorry to hear this news. Giles was a huge help last year when we were doing our reporting on Andrew Milne and Sheffield leaseholds. He was very generous with his time and clear in his advice. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jun...

My colleagues @danhayesjourno.bsky.social @molliesimpson.bsky.social @djstimms.bsky.social and Vicky Munro produce some of the best reporting in this country - they need to get to 1,000 new members by the end of the week to fulfil their pledges to the city. Help them out 🗞️🗞️🗞️

We're really in the last chance saloon now. We just need 250 more members, and we'll put our five big pledges into place for Sheffield. You can pay what you want for two months and get us over the line: www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/help-make-sheffield-better

Would you believe it, we pretty much did this in one take. I'm a natural. More important though is what I'm saying: that Sheffield's inequalities need a proper looking at. So go to: sheffieldtribune.co.uk/pledge and get us to our big 1,000 target

We actually might do it. Extraordinary

🗣 “My mum met my dad at the fair.” After nearly 900 years, one of West Yorkshire’s oldest traditions is under threat.

LISTEN TO THE REVEREND

Looooads of people told us they want us to do something about disinformation. Here's @molliesimpson.bsky.social talking about why it matters and what we can do 👇

top work moment

Politics in a nutshell! - Well done - Thank you! - Let's talk - I've been fired.

Awards evening tonight! Very exciting

Want to make Sheffield better? Here's how 👇

Wow, our campaign is off to a flying start! It’s been just under a week since what might have been one of the most exciting days in Tribune history - and we’re still buzzing from it.

A top team with 16 years of experience between them. Can't wait to get going very soon!

It is absolutely extraordinary for the special advisor of a serving cabinet minister to be threatening a British media outlet with an injunction on what seem like deeply spurious grounds. You cannot get an injunction for defamation: the saying is "publish, and be damned" for exactly that reason.

When a mate told me in the pub that a Middle Eastern buyer was looking to get their hands on the world's oldest football club, I laughed. There couldn't be anything to it - could there? www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/qatar-cash-a...

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

It is such a relief to have a paper like @manchestermill.bsky.social as our local paper! This story really did worry me (it still does), and having the Mill on it means those of us in the community will have a better understanding of what is going on.

How it started: How it's going:

“I call lichens creatures — because they’re complicated things.” Today’s story is about industrial pollution and climate change, and how a symbiotic creature made of fungi and algae is silently monitoring Sheffield's air quality without any of us knowing about it. ✍️ @bbobillsmothers.bsky.social

There may be only minutes left to become one of 500 founding members for our new Leeds/West Yorkshire newspaper! Don't miss your chance 👇 leeds.ghost.io

FEWER THAN 40 PLEDGES NEEDED TO LAUNCH A NEW NEWSPAPER IN LEEDS SIGN UP NOW FOR GREAT JOURNALISM leeds.ghost.io

We're so close to bringing back the glorious spirit of the LOP! Please pledge if you haven't already

Just one week left! Amazing response so far but we need another 150 pledges

It’s been a remarkable few weeks and this morning we’ve just hit 300 pledges 👏🏼 We wanted to share some of the messages we’ve received along the way. They’ve meant a huge amount.

Such kind words from @robynvinter.bsky.social ! We'd love to launch Leeds, and we're well on the way. If you think West Yorkshire needs great local journalism, sign up: leeds.ghost.io

the orange blob is bigger than the white blob!!! This could actually happen. We still need 240 more absolute legends to get on board... leeds.ghost.io

We are so close to halfway there! Could you get behind launching a new newspaper in Leeds?

"In the Industrial Revolution, every big city in the north had a local champion newspaper." @tomforth.co.uk thinks cities like Leeds deserves one again. 👑

Nearly half way to 500 - wow 🤩 The support so far has been brilliant - and it shows there's real appetite for serious local journalism here 📰

We need 500 members to join us before we can launch in Leeds To pledge your support, follow this link and share with a friend 💕 leeds.ghost.io/welcome-to-lee…

We're trying to bring the proud tradition of local champion newspapers back... Pledge your support and help us launch! leeds.ghost.io

🚨 NEW: Andrew Milne has been barred from practicing as a solicitor by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and will need oversight by an SRA-approved solicitor in order to work. A spokesperson for the SRA had this to say:

Oh goodness, yes please! Leeds is absolutely crying out for a @millmedia.bsky.social type newspaper. Please consider supporting...

for reasons not totally clear to me, in the 60s, the annual chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee (the 2026 edition is going on right now!) was covered by Dutch press photographer who all went insanely hard on it

I’ve been hoping a new Manchester Mill-style journalism outfit would come to Leeds for a while, so I’m very pleased to be pledger number 131. Please consider joining too! leeds.ghost.io

Unbelievably it actually looks like we could get halfway to our target by the end of this WEEK. We just need 95 more people to pledge to back us... West Yorkshire is HANKERING after quality local journalism leeds.ghost.io

It's been 24 hours since we launched this - and honestly, we've been blown away 🤯 128 people have already pledged to support a new newspaper for West Yorkshire. Thank you! To launch, we still need 500 ✏️

And then there were seven 👀 When I first spoke to @joshih.bsky.social in 2020, he'd just launched The Mill and was thinking of setting something up in Liverpool. Less than six years later, today we're launching our seventh title in Leeds (@leedsnewlocalpaper.bsky.social). Sign up 👉 leeds.ghost.io

If you've got even the most tenuous connection to Leeds, we need your help. Click the below and pledge to support quality local journalism in the city!

Last time I was in Leeds, I was checking out of the children's hospital, so tired I'd forgotten how to tie a scarf. Now I'm back! And building a tiny new team to give Leeds the incredible journalism it needs. Read more about why we're launching a new newspaper now: leeds.ghost.io/the-case-for...

Drug wars, the wrong man being shot, escapes to Dubai... the crazy thing about this story is it's actually true. As @danhayesjourno.bsky.social filled me in on his chats with police and trips to court my jaw hit the floor. Don't miss his incredible piece on one of SYP's biggest investigations:

@danhayesjourno.bsky.social has been working on this one for some time. It's an extraordinary story - how do you track a killer when they shot the wrong man?

When 19 year old Kevin Pokuta was shot and killed in Page Hall in December 2023, it seemed to be a totally random attack. “It was a genuine whodunnit, which we rarely have,” says Detective Sergeant Lindsay Harding. This is the story of how detectives from South Yorkshire Police caught his killer.

The case of Andrew Milne, the London solicitor who has been demanding thousands of pounds from Sheffield leaseholders, has just been raised in Parliament. Phil Brickell MP said Milne had been “bullying, harassing and threatening” homeowners and called on the SRA to crack down on “crooked lawyers” 👀

Despite what you may have heard, homicides in London are at their lowest level since records began. But if you're black, there's less to celebrate. Really important analysis by Katharine Swindells for The Londoner. www.the-londoner.co.uk/youve-never-...