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Joshi Herrmann
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Journalist up north. Founder of @millmediauk. Get the very best by-election/Burnham coverage by joining @manchestermill as a paying member.
Manchester, England
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    Joshi Herrmann
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    May 23
    I’ve been writing about Andy Burnham in Manchester for a while. We’ve had a few run-ins but I think he has qualities that many people don’t appreciate and weaknesses that spell trouble. I wrote this for @ManchesterMill - I hope it’s insightful and fair.
    Stop looking for Burnhamism - in six years, I’ve never found it
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    Joshi Herrmann
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    Aug 5, 2024
    As mobs attempt to burn down hotels housing asylum seekers, don't forget Nigel Farage led a campaign to publicise these hotels. He recorded himself turning up at a series of them in 2020 and asked his followers to identify more hotels, saying some residents "might be ISIS".
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    Joshi Herrmann
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    Jul 19, 2024
    Someone told me about a semi in Manchester that had been flipped from £575k to £1.8m in one day, described by the council as market "manipulation". We finally identified the house and it turns out the flippers are... a property firm who have been paid millions by the council!
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    Joshi Herrmann
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    Oct 18, 2020
    This story says 82% of critical care beds in Greater Manchester are occupied but for some reason it doesn't mention what a normal occupancy % is. Here are the adult critical care bed numbers for October last year: Manchester Uni Trust: 87% occupied Salford: 97% Tameside: 100%
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    Joshi Herrmann
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    Dec 13, 2024
    🚨New on @_TheLondoner: David Lammy's special advisor Ben Judah wrote a strange and disturbing book about London, littered with racial stereotypes, implausible quotes and obvious falsehoods. How did it get published?
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    Joshi Herrmann
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    Jan 7, 2019
    UCAS deadline is next week and my colleagues have set up an email helpline to give some state school applicants the kind of help/cheating private school pupils always get. Send in your personal statement if you need a second pair of 👀
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    Joshi Herrmann
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    Aug 30, 2023
    Some very exciting news...🚨 We've raised money from a group of readers and supporters, including ex-NYT CEO Mark Thompson and longtime Mill members like @turi and @DianeCoyle1859. It means this model can now expand - more journalists, more cities.
    Manchester Mill newsletter eyes expansion after £1.75m valuation
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    Joshi Herrmann
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    Oct 15, 2024
    Is @British_Airways on the brink of bankruptcy or something? They've cancelled my flights to New York. Their site doesn't let me re-book them. Their phones don't answer. Their DM service asks me to add my passport, which the site won't let me do. Wtf??
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    Joshi Herrmann
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    May 20, 2024
    🚨 OK, I need your help. Andy Burnham's advisor Sacha Lord is threatening to sue @ManchesterMill. So we're publishing the document at the heart of the story - and asking for your help with a 'community fact-check'. My editor's note. Pls share.
    Sacha Lord is threatening to sue us. Can you give us a hand?
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    Joshi Herrmann
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    May 23, 2024
    🚨 Sacha Lord has just withdrawn his threat to sue us. He says he will "fully cooperate" with the Arts Council and GMCA investigations, and still denies the claims. We've held off publishing today's story for this statement. I'll let you decide (next tweet) how plausible it is.
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    Joshi Herrmann
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    Jan 14, 2018
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    ...Ansari built his career on being cute and nice and parsing the signals women send to men and the male emotions that result and turning them into award-winning, Madison Square Garden-filling comedy." @babedotnet
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    Joshi Herrmann
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    Jun 6, 2024
    🚨Some GOOD media news: We're using the money we raised last year to double the size of our team by the end of 2024, hiring journalists in Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, Liverpool and... London. Yes, the time has come - as reported by today's @FT.
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    Joshi Herrmann
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    Oct 9, 2024
    "If you’re on a general shift and you’re not on a job, it should be at least eight stories a shift.” Absolutely ridiculous expectation - bad for journalism and terrible for the mostly young journalists being asked to churn out content all day.
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    Press Gazette
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    Oct 9, 2024
    Regional press giant Reach has launched a drive to increase story counts across its titles, Holdthefrontpage reports. It reports on an email, sent by a senior Reach editor, suggests reporters should be writing EIGHT stories per shift holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2024/news/reac…
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    Joshi Herrmann
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    Oct 18, 2020
    Replying to @joshi
    According to NHS data, the occupancy of adult critical care beds in Greater Manchester at the end of October 2019 was .... 83.6%. *How* is that not in the story? (Data here england.nhs.uk/statistics/sta…)