Sheffield Forum’s first podcast launched this week, and the first guest is Dan Hayes, founder of the Sheffield Tribune.
What REYT. is
REYT. Independent Sheffield Podcast is the Sheffield podcast for people who want to know everything happening in the Steel City. If you’re newer to Sheffield Forum through this blog, the short version is this: it’s the UK’s longest-running city-specific online community, 210,000 members and counting, and Sheffield Guide is in the process of joining forces with it. REYT. is something we are building together.
Every week, a new guest sits down for a proper, unscripted conversation about Sheffield. No PR lines, no script, no agenda. Just an hour or so of honest chat with the people building, shaping and occasionally arguing about this city.
Episode one: Dan Hayes, Sheffield Tribune
Five years ago Dan left a staff job at the Sheffield Star to start the Sheffield Tribune from nothing. Today it has 40,000 readers, 3,200 paying members, a team of four, and a shortlist nomination for the Paul Foot Award, one of the most respected prizes in UK investigative journalism.
In the episode he talks through the Tribune’s two biggest stories. The Leadmill campaign, and how months of reporting changed the way Sheffield saw it. And the Andrew Milne investigation, the leasehold scandal that led to Sheffield homeowners being sent legal demands. That story came with serious legal threats before it was even published, reporters door-knocking through Bradway in the rain, and an arrest by the time it was done.
He also explains what actually pushed him out of the Star. After a redundancy scare and a few years of cuts, the moment that finally did it was being told to write about a sausage sandwich with marmalade on it, because it was mentioned on BBC Breakfast.
Sum Up Sheffield, Straight Outta Sheffield, and REYT. Good Recommendations
Every REYT. episode includes three regular features.
Asked to Sum up Sheffield in a few words, Dan lands on friendly, humble and hilly.
For his Straight Outta Sheffield moment, the one where guests talk about Sheffield turning up somewhere unexpected, he goes back to Sheffield Arena in 1995, watching Oasis with a then-unknown support act called Pulp, a couple of months before Common People made Jarvis Cocker a household name.
And his REYT. Good Recommendations: Hop Hideout for a pub, 5tara for food, Shaw’s Ironmongers as the shop where, in his words, if it’s not in there it doesn’t exist, and Burritos y Mas as his Sheffield hidden gem.
Chart success
Less than 48 hours after launch, REYT. entered the UK’s Places & Travel podcast chart at number 8. For a brand new show with no advertising spend, built entirely on a community that already trusts Sheffield Forum, that’s a strong start.
Listen and follow
You can watch and listen on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music, or find the full episode page, show notes and discussion thread at sheffieldforum.co.uk/reyt.
New episodes land every Tuesday.
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