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Post by piglet on Sept 10, 2024 9:20:35 GMT
My local, the Cambridge Independant is a good paper, you can comment easily on articles. Months ago, or is it years, who knows, that paper and others changed so that to read it you had to submit your email for updates whatever.
Of course i had absolutely no intention of doing that, ever. I thought that people abandoning it would result in it becoming a free paper again, not so. Does anyone know why they did that? i thought it would be business suicide. Am i going to give them my email?, no.
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Post by patman post on Sept 10, 2024 13:46:45 GMT
Having a list of contactable readers/listeners/viewers allows news media to survey their audiences about content and topics as a way of remaining current and relevant.
They could access the local community by using info on the electoral register, but that would be more expensive and take longer…
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Post by piglet on Sept 11, 2024 10:00:18 GMT
Thanks for that pat, i look at it accasionally, you can see the front page but not the articles, there used to be tons of comments on the news, now theres one or two if your lucky. The readership must be very low, and i thought that the email thing would be readership suicide. If the people who run it dont know whats current and relevant then god help us, its common sense.
But not today.
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Post by patman post on Sept 11, 2024 18:55:21 GMT
It appears to be owned by Iliffe — a name well-known in the technical periodical world — though today’s Iliffe Media probably has little to do with the old Dorset House activity that published Wireless World.
Iliffe appears to own a number of local newspapers, though whether print or online or both isn’t immediately clear from a quick Google…
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