About The Llanelli Standard
The Llanelli Standard newspaper and website are operated by Red Brand Media, a not-for-profit social enterprise, under the ownership of CETMA. Serving as Llanelli's free community newspaper, the publication is collaboratively written by community journalists in conjunction with the Red Brand Media team.
Our Story
The team behind the Llanelli Standard is driven by the mission to bring the latest community news and information to the people of the electoral ward of Llanelli.
In 2019, the team behind the West Wales Chronicle set up Red Brand Media in order to meet the needs of a specialist community media presence, and the Llanelli Standard was born.
Over the past few years, Red Brand Media has added Polish News, a special Welsh Language Project called Newyddion Lle, and a feature wellbeing magazine called Mind Body & Soul to the Llanelli Standard.
We Are Regulated By Impress
The Llanelli Standard is a member of the only officially-sanctioned UK press regulator, IMPRESS. We adhere to their Standards Code and are proud to display their ‘Trust in Journalism’ logo.
We ensure that our articles and news is accurate, factual, verified and unbiased. The Llanelli Standard is politically neutral. We only publish political articles that have been sent to us by the local and/or national parties. We have excellent relationships with people who have different political affiliations.
We have a clear separation between news and opinion, with our columnist’s opinion pieces being clearly marked, and adverts are also clearly separated.
Members of the National Union of Journalists
We're members of the National Union of Journalists, one of the largest unions of independent journalists in the world.
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Meet The Core Team
Ryan Thomas
Editor | DirectorRyan is the Editor of the Llanelli Standard and is often seen speaking with the community, advertisers and our columnsists / community journalists.
Emyr Evans
Social Media | DirectorEmyr is one of our go to guys for social media. He has also been part of our sales and marketing team for a number of years and assists with distribution.
Keith Evans-Hurley
Web Admin | DirectorKeith is the first point of call for issues with the Llanelli Standard website. If the website goes down, then it gets back up and running as soon as possible!
Brandon Fuge
Sales & MarketingBrandon does one of the most important jobs, he helps advertisers get the best deal on advertising with us, which in turn keeps the newspaper FREE.
Kate Jones
Graphic DesignKate is a valued member of the team, she not only does the art work that you see across social media, but also adverts and the design of the newspaper itself!