The Valley Courier (sample) is an independent news magazine for Springfield and the twelve villages along the river: printed every Thursday, online every day.
We are a newsroom of nine: five reporters, a photographer, a production editor, a listings editor and an editor (sample). We cover the council meetings nobody else sits through, the shops that open and close, and the plays, gigs and markets that make the valley worth living in.
We do not chase national news. If it happened here, or it changes life here, it is ours.
Four decades of Thursdays (sample).
1978
Two teachers start a monthly newsletter about the plan to close the valley railway station.
1991
The newsletter becomes a weekly magazine with its own office on Press Lane.
2004
Stories go online the day after print; the archive starts here.
2017
A readers’ co-operative buys the magazine from its founders (sample).
2024
The morning email starts: five stories before breakfast.
Write to any of us; the addresses are on the contact page.
Editor (sample)
Local desk and cover stories (sample)
Business desk (sample)
Culture desk (sample)
What’s on and listings (sample)
Photographer (sample)
Production and pages (sample)
Readers’ editor, corrections (sample)
Every story is checked by a second editor before it is printed. Quotes are recorded or written down on the day, and every figure has a source we can show you.
Print on your doormat on Thursday, the briefing on weekdays at 7:00 and every story online. From $4 a month (example prices).