City AM
Free London business newspaper covering UK finance, business and technology.
City AM functions as a primary source for UK ministers and executives rather than a subject Lowdown covers directly, a role it played on 15 July 2026 by carrying an AI-policy exchange between government and industry.
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City AM broke into national attention on 15 July 2026 by publishing AI minister Kanishka Narayan's account of Britain's artificial intelligence ambitions, a piece that drew an immediate rebuttal from Quantexa's John Harms over what genuine data sovereignty actually requires.
The paper is distributed free of charge, grown out of print runs once handed out across the Square Mile and Canary Wharf before its main readership shifted online; its beat remains UK Finance, business and technology.
Lowdown reads City AM as a primary source for statements made by ministers and executives, not as a subject of coverage in its own right, a role reinforced in April 2026 when the paper carried figures on record British venture funding.
