The News from Wanstead

Wanstead had thriving busy newspapers covering its activities for hundreds of years. And yet in the past decade they have practically disappeared, leaving the provision of news to a rag tag army of citizen journalists and social media posters. What have we lost by losing our media, and how might we get it back? With contributions from Wanstead historian Greg Roberts, media guru Nic Newman and Wansteadium’s Giles Wilson