City A.M.
A City A.M. front page from May 2012
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Freesheet |
| Owner(s) | City A.M. Limited |
| Editor | Christian May |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Political alignment | Conservative |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 3rd Floor, Fountain House, 130 Fenchurch St, London EC3M 5DJ |
| Circulation | 90,911 (as of December 2016) |
| Website | www |
City A.M. is a free, business-focused newspaper distributed in and around London, England. Its certified distribution was 90,911 copies a day in December 2016, according to statistics compiled by the ABC, a drop of 7.93% year-on-year.
City A.M. was launched in September 2005 and operates as an independent media company.
City A.M.'s editor is Christian May, formerly of the Institute of Directors. The paper employs an editorial team of 27 across its four daily sections – news, business features and investment, lifestyle and sport. Its pagination averages around 40 tabloid full-colour pages a day.
City A.M.'s launch editor was former Sunday Times and Sunday Express journalist David Parsley. He was succeeded by Allister Heath, who joined in February 2008. He edited the paper for six years until June 2014. He was previously the editor of The Business, a weekly magazine which closed in February 2008. David Hellier, formerly of the Independent and the Daily and Sunday Express, replaced Heath and served until 2015 when he was replaced by May.
The news section is primarily made up of corporate, financial and economic stories, as well as political and regulatory stories relevant to its readership. The paper regularly runs interviews of business leaders. The news pages also contain a variety of corporate and economic comment. The business features section is primarily dominated by investment, trading and wealth management pieces but also includes a range of articles on other business topics. The lifestyle pages cover a vast range of subject matters, including travel, restaurant reviews, food, fashion, technology, books, arts, entertainment, motoring and property. The sport section reports and comments on all the major events and games, with a bias towards sports of interest to London-based professionals. The paper's philosophy is broadly supportive of the free-market economy, of capitalism, of private enterprise and of the City of London and those who work in it. It endorsed the Conservative Party at the 2010 general election but was critical of several of the coalition's policies subsequently. Former editor Allister Heath argued that London and the south-east should be entitled to a greater rebate of UK tax revenue and has approved of the principle of London's becoming an independent city state. He also proposed a libertarian tax policy abolishing all personal and corporation taxes and introducing a single income tax rate of 30% on personal earnings, dividends, rent and interest. Heath's stance reflected the paper's classic liberal / libertarian philosophy, with a focus on capitalism and market forces as the drivers of economic and social progress.
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