Public News Choice Friday, August 21, 2026 Close edition
The Public News Choice Vol. I · No. 233 Press

TEST: A Substack essay on Britain’s quiet press merger

Development copy. Where: London. Tagged as a Substack original.

Independent writers left the newsroom and took the readers with them. This test filing pretends the essay landed on Substack first, then was printed here as a broadsheet.

Why the tag matters

The desk should be able to point at a Substack URL without stuffing the body full of embeds. The paper carries the text. The chip carries the origin.

A newspaper that cannot name the original desk is just laundering someone else’s work.
  1. Paste the Substack URL in the story form.
  2. The chip should read On Substack.
  3. The globe pin should sit on London.

Edit this story in the admin WYSIWYG and hit print. Formatting should survive bleach: headings, italics, emphasis, and lists.

Test copy London On Substack On Substack