A bored graduate has teamed up with a colleague and got his family on board to produce and distribute a free fortnightly magazine that is proving popular with commuters in north London.
Sam Lassman Watts, editor, and Rebecca Hall, designer, currently produce 500 copies of fortnightly Northern Line-focused magazine The Other Side, which Lassman Watts and his two brothers distribute outside Highgate station on alternate Thursday mornings.
The magazine is a mixture of quirky comment, reviews and features, which Lassman Watts described as “something a little more interesting than the rubbish handed out every night.”
He added:”We’ve had a really good reception. The people at the stations are coming back to us and wanting it – we’re getting the same people who really want it each week and are coming back and saying it’s great. People are emailing back and saying: ‘There were delays today and it was the only thing that kept me going on the way to work.’ It’s been building up more and more.”
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As the magazine is currently printed at Lassman Watts’s mother’s business, the cost of producing it is minimal, but the team is hoping to expand. They are seeking to recruit a “media savvy” volunteer to help engineer covering the cost of expanding the print run to 2,000, with the hope of branching out distribution to other Northern Line stations.
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