About

We love Cardiff - and want to tell its story.

Proper Cardiff News is the Welsh capital's quality news outlet, delivering in-depth investigations, features and analysis direct to readers' inboxes.

Local journalism is more important than it has ever been. We all need to understand what is really going on in our local area.

Unfortunately, local news has seen relentless cuts over the last two decades. This means that stories affecting our communities are increasingly told by groups with ill intentions, leaving us all exposed to misinformation. It can also mean the place we’re proud to call home is represented in a negative light.

That’s why we’ve created Proper Cardiff News.

Proper Cardiff News is the Welsh capital's quality news outlet, delivering in-depth investigations, features and analysis direct to readers' inboxes. We want to bring our readers real stories about the city without pop up ads and clickbait.

We believe in providing Cardiff readers with proper insight into the city where they live as it undergoes enormous changes that impact everyone.

Some of our content is free, but paying members enjoy access to the best of our journalism, while supporting our independent approach to quality reporting.

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How it works

• Signing up to the free tier of our mailing list will give you access to our weekly news round up sent to inboxes on a Tuesday. Expect an original take and insight into all the most important stories and things to look out for over the next week.

• Paying members will get access to exclusive stories that drive the conversation in Cardiff, as well as deep dives into the issues and topics that fail to gain the attention they deserve.

You'll be able to comment on stories to share your thoughts with our team of reporters and our community of committed readers. Memberships cost £65 for the year or £7 per month, with the first 200 supporters to sign up eligible for a 23% discount. If that sounds like it's for you, sign up here.

Who's behind Proper Cardiff News?

Proper Cardiff News was created by former Western Mail editor Catrin Pascoe and political journalist Will Hayward. With a combined near-40 years award-winning experience working as journalists in Wales, Will and Catrin felt it was becoming clear that Wales' capital needed a strong independent news outlet that did things a bit differently. Proper Cardiff News was born.

Setting up shop in a small office in a red-brick former malt factory in Splott, Catrin and Will brought on journalist Marcus Hughes as editor and investigative journalist Conor Gogarty to form the central writing team.

These are (hopefully) the first of many reporters we are hoping to hire. The more subscribers we get, the more journalists we can take on.

Proper Cardiff News is part of the The Cymru News Network.

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