ABSTRACT
Since Gin and Taylor’s work in 2010, little attention has been paid to the press coverage of anti-gentrification resistance. This chapter focuses on the local newspapers’ coverage of the Cereal Killer Cafe attack in London in 2015. Relying on content analysis, and building upon the findings of le Grand’s paper (2020a) on national press coverage, it seeks to explain first why the popular local press somewhat aligned itself with the mainstream national coverage of the attack. It then aims to explain why an independent local paper (the Hackney Citizen)—while being a fierce anti-gentrification press organ—overlooked the event. The chapter highlights the importance of the local press as both a potential catalyst and stakeholder of anti-gentrification resistance.
