united kingdom founder s christopher brown website www.bristol247.com alexa rank 314751 august 2012 update 1 type of site news and blogging registration optional available in english launched 29 june 2009 current status active bristol24 7 is an independent online newspaper offering news comment and features for the city of bristol . 2 founded in 2009 by former the independent and western daily press journalist christopher brown 3 it was designed as an independent newspaper for bristol . 4 the following year fellow western daily press journalist laura k williams joined to launch a what s on section . in 2011 it was voted edf energy south west website of the year . 5 it retained this title in 2012 . 6 in june 2012 it received a commendation as best local news website in the uk at the online media awards . 7 it was relaunched as a community interest company in 2014 8 and expanded to include a team of writers from the former venue magazine spark magazine and local cafe blog bristol culture . now based at the paintworks arnos vale bristol24 7 publishes content seven days a week from freelance journalists and bloggers from around the city . sections include news business comment what s on food and drink lifestyle and culture . references edit bristol247.com site info . alexa internet . retrieved 2012 08 15 . about us . b24 7 . retrieved 13 september 2016 . bristol journalist takes redundancy to launch local website a new news site for bristol chris brown on independent news start up bristol 24 7 south west media awards 2011 what the judges said winners gallery from edf energy south west media awards online media awards 2012 staff of axed magazine join revamped city website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bristol24 7 & oldid 739245886 categories media in bristolbritish news websitespublications established in 2009hidden categories articles containing potentially dated statements from august 2012all articles containing potentially dated statements navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 september 2016 at 16 02 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view