Postcode Gazette is a business with an amazing vision to reinvent local news and local advertising, plus provide a voice for communities, and a place where communities can gather.

Postcode Gazette is about news, offers, events, and people really near you. Think of it as a virtual newspaper for every street in Britain. It is currently being piloted in Sheffield.

 

How to contact us

 

By phone:

Sheffield: 0114 321 0761

By email:

Info [at] postcodegazette.com

By mail:

Postcode Gazette
Kelham House,
Lancaster Street
Sheffield
S3 8AF

 

Press mentions:

 

Guardian:

"An ambitious bid to provide 'street level news' via mobile phones has been launched. The Postcode Gazette is hoping to recruit thousands of local publishers to deliver 'hyperlocal news on a national scale.'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2011/jun/14/hyperlocal-media-mobilephones

 

Editorsweblog:

"As the hyperlocal news boom continues, the Postcode Gazette's focus on mobile technology may be its best bet. The Gazette's venture into local news coincides with reports of mobile phones as an increasingly popular source for news.... Perhaps the Postcode Gazette will prove that hyperlocal news is best delivered in your pocket."
http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2011/06/new_hyperlocal_news_project_zeroes_in_on.php

 

VirtualEconomics:

"If they can get it right, rolling that model out nationwide implies an ultimate roster of 12,000 local publishers covering unprecedentedly small news beats. That's not just a big deal for hyperlocal or the communities those sites will serve, but big news for local journalists leaving shrinking newsrooms."
http://www.virtualeconomics.co.uk/2011/04/hyperlocal-is-growing-by-shrinking.html

 

New Model Journalism:

"With a deep-pocketed financial backer who is sometimes described as a 'publishing visionary' and a management team with a strong professional track record, they represent the UK's most serious attempt to date to make a proper business from hyperlocal news."
http://newmodeljournalism.com/2011/07/news-from-your-steet-served-up-by-a-publishing-visionary/

 

Holdthefrontpage:

"A potentially ground-breaking bid to provide "street-level" hyperlocal news via mobile phone has been launched in Sheffield. In one of the most ambitious experiments in citizen journalism to date, the Postcode Gazette is aiming to recruit 12,000 local publishers to deliver 'hyperlocal news on a national scale.'"
http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2011/news/street-level-news-site-seeks-12000-publishers/