About Us

The-Latest.Com was created in January 2006, as Britain's first dedicated citizen journalism website. Current developments include constantly updated 'ticker tape' national and international news and facilities for members to post their own blogs as well as book and entertainment reviews.

Video streaming and MP3 music is also available alongside instant polls on topical subjects open to all our visitors. Events listings can be emailed to The-Latest for inclusion on the site.

Our wide-ranging text and image content, provided by professional journalists and others who are member contributors, includes entertainment, music, world, general and community news, interviews and fun barmy categories.

Members can take part in forum discussions and comment on stories and blogs. An 'Image Galleries' section is also available so that members can upload interesting pictures and even showcase photos in their own personalised section. Our members have gone on to work for a variety of news media including the Sunday Telegraph and The London Paper. Some of The-Latest's stories have been picked up by Sky TV, the BBC, Daily Mirror, The Guardian, The Sun, Mail on Sunday and Evening Standard.

Respected American website, Online Journalism Blog, describes The-Latest as 'a surprisingly diverse site, taking in columns, community news, world news, and everything in between'. London UK Guardian newspaper columnist Gary Younge says enthusiastically that we're 'really sharp and distinctive'. And Professor of Journalism Richard Keeble, of Lincoln University, says: 'Overall I think you are doing wonders with the site.' World Development Movement's Effie Jordan says the site, 'looks professional and easy to navigate'. She adds: 'It is good to have ‘non-mainstream media relatively agenda-free’ voices. What a great space for people to be heard.' From South Africa, Jackie Motsepe, head of marketing and public affairs at the National Film and Video Foundation, says: 'I went onto your website and it is really interesting, varied and rich with news and information. It has helpful tips and is really good. I'll be visiting often.'

The website is published by The-Latest Ltd.

Whether a news junkie or casual browser, the site is for YOU. It is a people's website where there's information the rest of the media has either ignored or forgotten.

We'll help you have fun ferreting out the facts, writing stories as well as taking pictures and posting the results on the Internet for all to view. No longer do we have to make demands of the BBC or put ourselves at the mercy of greedy media tycoons like Rupert Murdoch to be heard. Public participation in The-Latest citizen journalism will ensure that we deliver your news agenda of choice, will always question 'the official line' of powerful organisations and expose their lies, vice and folly.

Update

What's President George W. Bush's 'war on terror', in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, really about and why did Tony Blair support it?

What' was the true casualty total after the 'terrorist bombings' in London on 7/7? Who was really behind these earth-shattering events?

What's the latest on official probes like the investigations into the controversial death of Princess Diana?

What's happening in a court case, crime or other investigation you're interested in, but suddenly the news media stops reporting or doesn't cover at all?

We can submit Freedom of Information Act inquiries to public bodies for you and get important questions answered. See: http://www.the-latest.com/freedom-of-information-advice

Travel and Health

In today's uncertain world, to what places is it safe to travel? And, with the advent of new pandemics like bird flu, what's the latest health advice? Tell us about your transport experiences or treatment at the hands of the health service or other official bodies. Whistle blow on information being kept secret by the powers-that-be when the public have the right to know.

Where are they now?

What's happened to a favourite soap star no longer in the show? A politician, pop star, sports personality, actor or model - where are they now?

New Products

Get a sneak preview of the latest products like mobile phones, electrical and other goods reviewed by consumers themselves.

Your Website

Feel free to put your news blog on our website (http://www.the-latest.com/how-to-blog). Or upload newsy photos and videos from your camera phone: a celeb you spotted, a news event you captured. London-based professional journalists will edit your contribution so that you have something to be proud of and can keep in your portfolio as published work. If we are able to sell on your contribution, you will be rewarded financially.

The-Latest.Com is not primarily a news conduit for the mainstream media but an alternative space for a public cheesed off with the narrow, biased agenda of Fleet Street and broadcast editors. Newspapers and Tv stations would like citizen journalism to be just intrepid digital camera-wielding, unpaid members of the public beefing up their tired newsgathering operations rather than an independent, mass-participatory people's website. Here is some advice on how to find news: http://www.the-latest.com/how-to-get-stories

Huge historical events have been recorded by vigilant members of the public. Remember that the explosive pictures of Rodney King being beaten by Los Angeles police were caught on amateur video. And much of the dramatic evidence in the investigation of 7/7 and the 'terrorist attack' on America of 9/11 came from people's camera phones and amateur video as did shocking images of the Asian tsunami and, in 2008, the Chinese earthquake and disaster in Myanmar (Burma).

The-Latest is proud of our news scoops and eyewitness citizen reporting from Jordan, China, Nigeria, Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, Beirut and the troubles in Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe. We have also covered the historic battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party nomination to be American President in an unrivalled alternative way.

Our website has useful links to other sites. And, for subscribers, there is unrivalled media advice. For instance, we have lucrative tips on how to successfully sell a story or a picture through The-Latest to a major news outlet (http://www.the-latest.com/latest-offer).

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