Migrant Women Press

What Migrant Women Press does

Migrant Women Press CIC is a Glasgow-based, non-profit independent media organisation founded in 2020 that publishes original journalism and storytelling produced by and for migrant and racialised women across the UK and beyond. Its core offering is a content publishing platform spanning investigations, features, interviews, opinion pieces, essays, first-person narratives, and visual stories, organised across editorial categories including Politics & Activism, Intersectionality, Health & Wellbeing, Arts & Culture, Literature, and World of Work & Entrepreneurship. The organisation is led by migrant and racialised women and applies an intersectional feminist and anti-racist editorial lens, commissioning only contributors with lived experience of being migrant women. It is regulated by Impress, the UK independent press regulator, and is a member of the Independent Media Association and The Scottish Beacon community news network.

The organisation operates on standard, off-the-shelf digital infrastructure: a WordPress-hosted website at migrantwomenpress.com, a Substack-powered email newsletter, Google Analytics for anonymised audience measurement, and YouTube for embedded video. There is no proprietary technology, no mobile application, and no in-house AI/ML capability. A pitch submission programme commissions writers with lived experience of being migrant women to contribute features, essays, and investigations, deepening the contributor pipeline. The platform's primary problem-solved is the structural under-representation of migrant and racialised women in UK media, where 87% of journalists are white (NCTJ 2023 data cited in the source), and where coverage of immigration is frequently dehumanising.

Revenue is derived from three streams: reader donations via PayPal, Substack newsletter subscriptions, and grants from Firstport, National Lottery Scotland, and The National Lottery Community Fund. The organisation is actively transitioning from a volunteer group to a social enterprise and explicitly does not yet have a steady revenue stream, nor does it yet compensate contributors consistently. The go-to-market motion is community-led and content-led, distributing freely accessible journalism across its website, newsletter, and social channels, with reach extended through the Scottish Beacon network partnership.

Name

Migrant Women Press

Legal name

Migrant Women Press CIC

Website

https://migrantwomenpress.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Migrant Women Press CIC is a Glasgow-based non-profit independent media organisation founded in 2020 that publishes original journalism and storytelling produced by and for migrant and racialised women in the UK and beyond, using an intersectional feminist and anti-racist lens.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Independent Journalism / Community Media

NAICS

Newspaper Publishers (513110)

SIC

Newspapers: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2711)

akta.pro primary industry

Community, Ethnic & Multilingual News Publishers (MPAJADAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Immigrant & Refugee Rights Advocacy (BPAGAFAG)

Keywords

• Independent journalism
• Community media
• Intersectional reporting
• Migrant storytelling
• Nonprofit publishing

Headquarters

HQ city

Glasgow

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations: Accepts donations via PayPal to support independent journalism and empower migrant women's voices. Donation page available on website.
2. Substack Subscriptions: Newsletter subscriptions via Substack platform for regular updates to supporters and readers.
3. Funding/Grants: Currently transitioning from volunteer group to social enterprise. Funded by Firstport, National Lottery Scotland, and The National Lottery Community Fund. Does not yet have steady revenue stream.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Migrant Women Press is a non-profit, independent media organisation that publishes original journalism, features, interviews, opinion pieces, essays, first-person narratives, investigations, and visual stories produced by migrant and racialised women. Content is distributed freely through its WordPress website and Substack newsletter, with a commissioning program that accepts pitches from writers with lived experience of migration.

Product overview

Migrant Women Press is a non-profit, independent media organization that operates primarily as a content publishing platform. The core offering is original journalism and storytelling produced by and for migrant and racialised women, published across multiple content formats including investigations, features, interviews, essays, first-person narratives, and visual stories. Content is distributed through the website and a Substack-powered newsletter. The organization also operates a commissioning program that accepts pitches from writers with lived experience of migration.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Stories and Articles Original journalism content including investigations, features, interviews, opinions, essays, first-person narratives, and visual stories focused on migrant women's experiences, published across categories such as Arts & Culture, Features, Health & Wellbeing, Intersectionality, Investigations, Literature, Opinion & First Hand, Politics & Activism, and World of Work & Entrepreneurship.
• Substack Newsletter Regular email newsletter delivering stories and updates about migrant women to subscribers, distributed via the Substack platform.
• Pitch Submission Program Commissioning program where writers with lived experience of being migrant women can pitch stories for publication, including features, interviews, essays, and investigations.
• Publications Collective category of published journalism and storytelling content across categories including Arts & Culture, Features, Health & Wellbeing, Intersectionality, Investigations, Literature, Opinion & First Hand, Politics & Activism, and World of Work & Entrepreneurship.

Quantifiable outcome

• 87% of UK journalists are white (NCTJ, 2023); 94% are university-educated with only 12% from working-class backgrounds; women of colour largely excluded from editorial leadership
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• ImpresscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIndependent press regulator for UK news publishers. Migrant Women Press adheres to Impress Standards Code and is regulated by Impress for complaints handling. Members must follow standards for journalism ethics.
• Independent Media AssociationminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTrade association for independent media organisations in the UK, providing networking and representation for community publishers.
• The Scottish BeaconcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerScotland's collaborative network of independent community news organisations. Migrant Women Press is part of the network working together to strengthen local journalism across Scotland. Some articles may be cross-published on both websites.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Migrant Voice: UK news and media organisation publishing stories by and about migrants. Closely comparable audience (migrant communities in the UK) and community-led editorial model, though broader in scope than MWP's women-specific framing.
• The Ferret: Scotland-based independent investigative journalism outlet. Comparable as a fellow Scottish independent media organisation sharing audiences, networks (Scottish Beacon) and the same small-team, community-supported model.
• The Bristol Cable: UK community-led, reader-funded independent news outlet with a cooperative structure. Direct peer on the community-led, locally-rooted independent journalism model MWP operates within the Scottish Beacon network.
• Hyphen: UK-based online magazine covering identity, race, culture and migration from an intersectional lens. Most direct functional peer: independent, community-rooted, narrative-led journalism targeted at underrepresented audiences in the UK.
• The Scottish Beacon: Scottish collaborative network of independent community news organisations that cross-publishes content. Direct peer and active partner (MWP articles appear on the Beacon site) operating the same community-led, local-journalism model in the same geography.
• The Skin (formerly Black Ballad): UK independent media platform for Black women, sharing an intersectional editorial lens, niche community focus and grassroots/digital distribution model similar to MWP's migrant-women focus.

Broad incumbents

• Tribune: UK independent progressive magazine. Comparable independent-media, community/values-aligned publishing model, though operating at larger scale and on broader left-political themes rather than migration-specific content.
• openDemocracy: UK-registered independent investigative media covering human rights, migration and social justice. Comparable in editorial focus on migration, immigration policy and migrant women's rights, but at significantly larger scale and institutional funding base.
• Novara Media: UK independent progressive news and analysis outlet with much broader reach and funding. Operates the same independent-media model but covers general politics; MWP sits as a niche intersectional/feminist complement in the broader UK independent media space.
• Byline Times: UK independent reader-funded journalism outlet covering politics and social justice. Comparable as an independent, reader-supported UK publisher tackling issues intersecting with MWP's migration and rights coverage, but with broader editorial scope.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/migrant-women-press

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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