Flyover Media’s founding directors are Darryl Chamberlain and Neil Clasper.
Darryl Chamberlain has over 25 years’ experience in journalism, cutting his teeth in entertainment and showbusiness coverage. He joined BBC News Online in 1998 and reported for, sub-edited and duty-edited the entertainment section, leading the website’s coverage of special events such as the Brit Awards and Glastonbury.
He took voluntary redundancy in 2009, and started becoming interested in local journalism while standing in a council election, which brought home to him just how weak much local news coverage really was. The contacts he made on all sides during that election meant he started covering local issues himself.
In 2012, he became MoneySavingExpert.com’s first sub-editor, leaving in 2014 to work at the innovation charity Nesta on a civic technology project, Civic Exchange.
As well as running The Greenwich Wire, Darryl has written about topics including politics, transport and pubs for Londonist, CityMetric, Just Opened London and Bauer Media’s Smart Transport. He has a part-time role carrying out sub-editing shifts at a national daily newspaper, which enables him to keep producing The Greenwich Wire.
Neil Clasper contributed to and co-edited our former site, The Charlton Champion, and remains a director of Flyover Media. He has worked in professional publishing since 2001 across a range of commercial roles including sales, marketing, product and business management at companies such as Thomson Reuters, Lafferty, and Verisk.
He has been documenting the local area through photography over the last 15 years and plays lead guitar in the rock ‘n’ roll band Ronnie Ripple and the RipChords.
Why Flyover Media? We’re named after the dirty Woolwich Road Flyover in east Greenwich, next to where Darryl was brought up. It carries the Blackwall and Silvertown Tunnel approach over the congested Woolwich Road. This Sixties structure is a grimy reminder of a deep-seated neglect that has characterised much of the borough of Greenwich for decades, and why the people in charge need holding to account.
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