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Hyperlocal newspaper the Hackney Citizen has increased its print frequency to meet increasing demand from local readers.

The independently run and owned paper will now expand from quarterly print editions to become a monthly publication.

The newspaper and website printed its first edition in July 2008. The title is produced by a team of freelancers and volunteers and estimates its readership at around 30,000.

The free title was previously distributed door-to-door in N16, E5, E8 and E9 postcodes, where the title's key advertisers were, but will now be handed out in the first week of every month at markets, train stations and local cafes, shops and businesses. The Citizen is also now offering a subscription service starting at

£24.00 for 12 issues, which will include home delivery.

"More news, comment and features on this more frequent basis will enable the people who live and work in Hackney to be better informed about what is really happening in London’s most exciting borough," says a post on the Citizen's website .

Last month the title launched a fundraising drive to deal with a legal dispute with Hackney Council over audio recordings with a council employee published on the Citizen's website.

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Laura Oliver
Laura Oliver
Laura Oliver is a freelance journalist, a contributor to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, co-founder of The Society of Freelance Journalists and the former editor of Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)

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