Does anyone actually buy a newspaper any more?
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robscot said:
Pop your 'local' paper into https://www.abc.org.uk and post up the circulation...
(some shockers out there, and certainly not what they are telling prospective advertisers in one case I know of.)
I see that regularly first hand with third party pre printed inserts. Paper A tells their customer they print 20k, customer sends in 21k inserts. In reality they print 15k, with 5 to 6k thrown in the bin. Of particular note for this were a few religious publications with charity based inserts.(some shockers out there, and certainly not what they are telling prospective advertisers in one case I know of.)
Jambur said:
I see that regularly first hand with third party pre printed inserts. Paper A tells their customer they print 20k, customer sends in 21k inserts. In reality they print 15k, with 5 to 6k thrown in the bin. Of particular note for this were a few religious publications with charity based inserts.
There is also some fun maths where ABC says they print 3,000 copies. The Circulation.However, other systems (JICREG?) say 3.8 people read every copy from cover to cover (!) soooo 11,400 people !
Radio listenerships are even more fun...
soxboy said:
I get The Times on a Saturday and The Sunday Times, but only because I get it free with a Waitrose card (alongside a free coffee). If they weren’t free I wouldn’t buy them.
I do sometimes buy the Yorkshire Post on a Saturday.
I thought Waitrose stopped this about 3 years ago?I do sometimes buy the Yorkshire Post on a Saturday.
robscot said:
Pop your 'local' paper into https://www.abc.org.uk and post up the circulation...
(some shockers out there, and certainly not what they are telling prospective advertisers in one case I know of.)
7900 for our local paper in a city with a population of about 260,000 people.(some shockers out there, and certainly not what they are telling prospective advertisers in one case I know of.)
I did work experience in the photography department back in about 1990. The place was absolutely buzzing, the newsroom was huge with loads of TVs hanging from the ceiling showing the CEEFAX news page. It was like every newspaper newsroom you ever saw in the movies.
There was a full team of photographers with their own darkroom, going out and shooting their assignments in the morning and then in the afternoon developing the film and printing the pictures. I imagine the bigger regional papers would have had a dedicated dark room team.
Today it's a small office with a handful of people mostly ripping stories from social media it seems. I think there is just one photographer there.
R6tty said:
soxboy said:
I get The Times on a Saturday and The Sunday Times, but only because I get it free with a Waitrose card (alongside a free coffee). If they weren’t free I wouldn’t buy them.
I do sometimes buy the Yorkshire Post on a Saturday.
I thought Waitrose stopped this about 3 years ago?I do sometimes buy the Yorkshire Post on a Saturday.
I find the danger of internet news is that it generally serves up stuff you've shown interest in and it's too easy to skip things where the headline doesn't immediately grab you.
You miss so much
Nothing beats sitting down on a Sunday and working through a newspaper. I've read and learn't stuff purely because I haven't had to search for it. It's just there.
Not that I do it often enough
You miss so much
Nothing beats sitting down on a Sunday and working through a newspaper. I've read and learn't stuff purely because I haven't had to search for it. It's just there.
Not that I do it often enough
I buy the FT Weekend pretty frequently, its nice to browse through with a coffee on a weekend morning, and also, as someone else said , you pick up a lot of different articles that you might not read online.
I have an online subscription, and you miss a lot of articles that might be interesting when you read it online
I have an online subscription, and you miss a lot of articles that might be interesting when you read it online
I haven't bought a newspaper for years.
I used to love getting the Sunday Times on a wet Sunday and spending the whole day reading all the supplements.
We have just got back from a busy week away and spent very little time catching up on the news. It is so much better being ignorant of the world's issues.
I used to love getting the Sunday Times on a wet Sunday and spending the whole day reading all the supplements.
We have just got back from a busy week away and spent very little time catching up on the news. It is so much better being ignorant of the world's issues.
If Private Eye counts, then yes.
Funny this topic coming up as we were just talking last night about how much more "responsible" the media (news) was back when stories were reported in columns and inches or just 30 minutes at 6 and 9pm.
Now with 24 hour News Channels and the internet, its all about the sensationalism of a story to keep viewers watching to the next ad break.
Funny this topic coming up as we were just talking last night about how much more "responsible" the media (news) was back when stories were reported in columns and inches or just 30 minutes at 6 and 9pm.
Now with 24 hour News Channels and the internet, its all about the sensationalism of a story to keep viewers watching to the next ad break.
Slow.Patrol said:
We have just got back from a busy week away and spent very little time catching up on the news. It is so much better being ignorant of the world's issues.
There is that. We're sometimes in danger of a news overload. But as it's fed to us on line it's not always the right news.
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