This month is the Salford Star's eighth birthday eight years since the magazine first appeared in May 2006
with attitude and love xxx
Between May 2006 and Autumn 2008 eight issues of the Star were produced, giving the community a voice, holding public bodies up to account, digging up real Salford heritage, bigging up top Salford talent and lots, lots more.
During its life in print the Salford Star won numerous awards including Magazine of the Year (How Do), Best Regional Newspaper (Plain English Campaign), the Millennium Award (UnLtd) and the Salford Lotta Bottle Award (Studio Salford), plus runner up in the Paul Foot Award for Investigative Journalism (Private Eye).
When the Star went online in 2009 it continued to win awards and over two thousand articles and big exclusive stories were produced (this one is number 2284!) covering daily happenings in the city, from the Hazel Blears expenses scandal to the Salford Riots to the Barton Moss anti-fracking protests.
The Salford Star will continue its incredible online presence - which this spring saw well over 100,000 monthly readers while at the same time producing a print issue at the beginning of September.
"Thanks to the incredible support from Salford's community we are now, at last, able to reappear in print" says Salford Star editor Stephen Kingston "We'd like to thank everyone who has donated towards achieving this goal (we'd love to name some of them but their modesty is blazing). The aim has always been to come out in print again to reach those people in the community for whom the digital divide is as wide as the wealth divide.
"The more advertising and financial support we get, the more issues we will produce and the more copies we will print" he adds "And we would urge anyone who wants to help out with writing, photography, ad sales, fundraising or anything else to get in touch, to help make this re-launch a major success."
The Salford Star will appear at the beginning of September 2014 as a tabloid magazine, with an initial print run of 20,000 copies, delivered free to homes, businesses, shops, community centres and on the streets across the city.
Advertising rates range from £600 for a full page to £40 for a sixteenth of a page (see ad rate card). There are also £30 `plaques' available wishing the Star `good luck' (or whatever!)
Anyone wishing to contribute towards the all new print version of the Salford Star please contact info@salfordstar.com or phone 07957 982960
* The incredible Salford Star Lottery is about to be launched too!
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