Write like you mean it, not like you ‘prompted’ it yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/tec...

Surviving Gaza: a personal account of life under siege northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n...

Wow, Bylines Network has just hit 19m reads of our powerful citizen journalism. By supporting us, you’re not funding a news outlet – you’re fueling a movement. We are Bylines Network, by the people, for the people.

Bylines Network Webinar | 16th June 2025 Equality and Diversity in Media and Journalism: Where do we go from here? Tickets available here 👇👇 www.tickettailor.com/events/bylin...

In this article we give a citizen the platform to tell their story, and expose how corrupt big pharma has stopped the NHS from giving them – and countless others – the healthcare they need. /1 #TruthToPower centralbylines.co.uk/news/health/... @copagej.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk

Free from corporate control and not afraid to take on tech bros - Bylines Big Tech Week starts tomorrow. Here's our tech coordinator Patricia telling you all about it. Join our webinar with The Citizens to kickstart your own investigations and articles: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

We at Central believe that no one's voice should be suppressed. Despite the overwhelming crowds at the #HandsOff protests the MSM seem largely quiet. If you were there and want your voice heard email us: [email protected] We are Bylines Network Powerful Citizen Journalism

Children with autism: gently helping to lift the mask centralbylines.co.uk/news/world/h...

Brilliant video here from @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social about @bylinesnetwork.co.uk and its 10 fantastic publications. A month of celebrating five years of powerful citizen journalism. And tons of ways you can engage and support, not least donating to help us move forward.

We are passionate about amplifying YOUR voice if you have a story to tell we would love for you to join us Download our brochure 👇🏻 centralbylines.co.uk/wp-content/u...

We intend on helping fill the void created by the decline in regional print journalism. Thanks for the shout out from the MD of @bylinesnetwork.co.uk, if you have a story to tell from the East or West Midlands or beyond then please email [email protected]

Wow. Regional print journalism in the UK continues to decline. Makes alternatives like what we do @bylinesnetwork.co.uk even more relevant. Speaking of which…spotlight on @centralbylines.co.uk who are doing some excellent citizen journalism right now. One of our 10 regional online publications.

A long read but it's worth it. All news providers need to give it some thought www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Wow, we had over 450K reads in Feb, one of our best ever months for the UK's perhaps even the worlds fastest growing citizen journalism publication in the At a time when billionaires and oligarchs own the majority of our press, why not help support us here as a one off or regular monthly donation

Firewalls, ‘Wheedling Muskrats’, and the Sunday question westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/fir...

Please check out this substack. This is a real journalist. broligarchy.substack.com/p/us-coup-ga...

Galentines Day is today! Women and their stories are at the heart of what we do in our 10 Bylines Network publications. Research carried out in 2024 found that only 40% of senior editors in UK media and news were female. At the Bylines Network it is 85% @gemmagould.bsky.social

Blue skies over Shropshire last weekend. South of Cleobury Mortimer, a tough 8k

Twitter just lost around 300,000 journalists. Nice move by the EFJ.

Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Languages & #Linguistics Books ✨🎁📚 #langsky #booksky

There's a new craze in bookshops around the UK... ...namely placing Boris Johnson's new memoir next to other books on lying and/or Brexit damage - or even alongside toilet paper and cat litter... Enjoy the pics! 👇

A Termite line (top) and an Ant line (bottom), each protected by its column of soldiers who face each other without attacking..

Delighted to be joining @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social as Managing Director in 2025. January can’t come soon enough! Citizen journalism is the future. It’s what our democracy and our communities need. bylinesnetwork.co.uk

How to shoot yourself in the foot with just a few words

A snowy morning in Ironbridge today #weather #StormHour #Snow #Telford

A bracing wander up Titterstone Clee today. Here's the view to Brown Clee #Shropshire #snow

The power of a new therapeutic approach to foster care A Shropshire fostering agency believes a therapeutic approach to supporting children in foster care has been key to its success

Here’s my Bylines starter pack. This is the full Bylines Network, plus Byline Times and other public good investigative press (Declassified, Desmog, openDemocracy…) Please follow & share. go.bsky.app/RWVEKv

Word of the day is ‘catchfart’, from the 17th century, used of a servant who followed their master or mistress a little too closely. In today’s terms, a catchfart is someone who fawns upon the boss or who follows the political wind.

Hi all, I have created a starter pack. Feel free to share. #autistic go.bsky.app/GCqwXeT

I see more people are joining now that X got even worse. For my #autism research mutuals, @lauramaycrane.bsky.social has created this wholesome starter pack to find people and posts you might miss from X. Enjoy! go.bsky.app/B9XV8UA

The sky is blue.. 🦋

Congratulations, @bsky.app on passing 18 million users! Adding nearly 12 users per second - a million a day! Now 90% towards your goal of 20 million users. Phenomenal! Now, if they'd all like to follow us for some great independent journalism... 😉

A stunning time-lapse of Earth setting below the Moon's horizon captured by the Japanese spacecraft Kaguya as it orbits the Moon. Credit: JAXA/NHK

We're always on the look out for new writers on almost any subject. In the week of the great xodus to BlueSky and Threads if you feel like writing on this on why you are leaving or indeed sticking it out on X, then please feel free to email [email protected]

Reform and the Tories say a US/UK trade deal would ‘vindicate Brexit’. It would also put Britain last

Here’s our map that shows your local Bylines ⤵️ @bylineseast.bsky.social @webylines.bsky.social @centralbylines.bsky.social @yorksbylines.bsky.social @nebylines.bsky.social @bylinesscotland.bsky.social @bylinescymru.bsky.social @nwbylines.bsky.social @sussexbylines.bsky.social @ksbylines.bsky.social

I don't know who needs to hear this, everyone I think, but if you send a PDF to your kindle and put 'convert' as the subject it will change it to epub format for you, you're welcome (I posted this on the other place and was surprised by how many people it helped so thought I'd do it here too.)

Like many independent news publications we're regulated by IMPRESS. www.impressorg.com

Our @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social editions now have their own BlueSky accounts; why not follow your local one? Or follow them all for even more excellent citizen journalism. @yorksbylines.bsky.social @centralbylines.bsky.social @bylineseast.bsky.social @bylinesscotland.bsky.social bylinesnetwork.co.uk

How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump (Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam) www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3v...

💓 I made a starter pack of less mainstream political voices to follow, rather than just the ones everyone has heard of go.bsky.app/FpbsVro

With the huge influx of followers, it's worth sharing our "Byliners" starter pack again ~ showcasing a bunch of our authors. If you write for us and aren't on the list, give us a shout! Please share 🙏 go.bsky.app/LSrc9iS

Now with added @charlottetobitt.bsky.social of @pressgazette.co.uk fame go.bsky.app/SRXaz4q

I don't just post Bylines articles, but I'm just getting started here ....