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THE VOICE, founded in 1982, is the ONLY multi-award winning British national black newspaper operating in the UK aimed at the British African-Caribbean community. The newspaper is published monthly and covers news, culture, arts, lifestyle, business, entertainment, sports and culture and has a global audience spanning six continents. The Voice was founded by Val McCalla, who, while working on a London local paper called the East End News in 1981, led a group of businessmen and journalists. The first issue of The Voice was printed to coincide with the Notting Hill Carnival in August 1982. Its cover price was 54 pence, and was only sold in London. Within two decades it had become Britain’s most successful black newspaper. KEY FIGURES The Voice alumni include: Commission for Racial Equality chair Trevor Phillips, former BBC and currently Al Jazeera newsman Rageh Omaar, ITV’s Martin Bashir, authors Afua Hirsch, Diran Adebayo, Leone Ross, and Gemma Weekes; film maker and novelist Kolton Lee, novelist Vanessa Walters, broadcasters MTV Jasmine Dotiwala, Henry Bonsu, Dotun Adebayo, Onyekachi Wambu and many others. AWARDS The Voice has received many awards including: Young Voices – two “Best Magazine” awards from the Urban Music Awards 2010 and 2009. BBI Media and Entertainment Award 2008.Voice of Sports – Performance Award 2003 from Western Union, BEEAM Awards for Organisation Achievements 2003 Black Plus Awards 2002, Britain’s Ethnic Minority Federation at the Bank of England, Partnership Awards 1999. NLBA Enterprise Excellence Awards 1996, BGA Gospel Awards – Best Media 1980s and GUBA Legacy Award - 2024. In 2022, the Voice launched a UK wide research project and survey to explore the lived experience of Black British people. The Black British Voices Project is now the largest national survey of Black Britain - with over 10,000 responses.

New Journal Enterprises is a company that operates in the Newspapers industry. It employs 6-10 people and has $5M-$10M of revenue. The company is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.

Hackney's independent, free monthly newspaper. From July 2010, due to increasing and popular demand, the Hackney Citizen expanded from its quarterly print editions to a monthly publication. More news, comment and features on a regular basis enable the people who live and work in Hackney to be properly informed of what is really happening in London’s most exciting borough. It is distributed face-to-face in the first week of every month across the whole borough at markets, train stations, and events and also in cafes, shop, businesses and libraries.