The London Paper to close

News International has announced the pending closure of the evening freesheet ‘The London Paper’. This is due to losses of around 13m in the year to June 2008. The main reason has been the decline in advertising demand in the current recession and also the competition in the London freesheet market.

This still leaves the London Lite as an evening freesheet, but this could also be closed by rivals Associated Press, as they may feel it has done its job in seeing off the News International competitor and will leave Associated’s London Evening Standard as the only evening London newspaper, once again.

Maybe a new freesheet will appear once the economy picks up again and advertising revenues increase.

Full story on The Independent website

London’s Freesheets…

Its great to see the amount of freesheet newspapers in London, which liven up the daily commute to and from work.

In the morning, the Metro is available at my local station, perfect for the train and tube journey to work. Then on way into work, City AM is dished out, ideal for city news.

Once work is over and the commute home is underway, the evening freesheets are dished out – I can get hold of The London Paper every day and sometimes London Lite.

In addition to all these newpapers, there’s also some decent magazines, including Sport magazine, a decent roundup given away every Friday.

Of all these newspapers Metro is the largest, covering the news and sport a bit more in depth than the others, while The London Paper is a good way of catching up with the days news and sport stories.

Links to all these below:-

Metro – http://www.metro.co.uk/

The London Paper – http://www.thelondonpaper.com/

City AM – http://www.cityam.com/

Sport – http://www.myfreesport.co.uk/

The London Lite – no website found