Graduate Starts Own News Site

A journalism graduate has launched an independent news website covering north Staffordshire.

Matt Taylor runs the Radical Press from his living room and says he hopes the website will provide an alternative view to the mainstream press.

The majority of the stories are sourced and written by Taylor himself and he also has voluntary contributors and guest columnists.

Taylor currently funds the operation through money earned as a bar owner but is looking to make it pay for itself in the future by attracting local advertisers.

He told Holdthefrontpage.co.uk: “The site is a good thing and much needed in Staffordshire.

“The Sentinel has a monopoly on the press and we needed another source of news, not only an alternative but something independent that provides a source of debate.”

Taylor also confirmed that he hopes to expand his site’s coverage in the future to include central Staffordshire and south Cheshire.