Thanks very much Diane. Very grateful for your support, as always.

Pledge 5 is about training up the Mancunian journalists of the future. If we reach 1000 new members in this campaign, we’re going to launch a structured scheme to support and mentor a group of wannabe writers and reporters, who will learn from our team and our experiences.

Our first pledge was incredibly popular with Millers and we’re excited about doing it: going into schools to give young people the skills to fact check what they’re seeing online and do their own journalism.

@joshiherrmann.bsky.social wrote about it here.

manchestermill.co.uk/youll-just-s...

So here’s what we plan to do about it. One of our six pledges as part of our 1000 member campaign is to send our journalists into local schools to talk about misinformation. It was our most popular pledge by far

I guessed

A great use of Super Sunday

What have we lost? “Something hard-to-define but powerful” writes Jack Walton. “The sense that a particular place matters; The knowledge that a group of people are going to work every day to chronicle not just any little corner of the planet, but your corner.”

manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...

Have to admit I wasn’t aware of that one.