Are you local?
Posted on Nov 23 2006 | Tagged as: Media
The site is updated daily, and they don’t hold back news for the newspaper. (I’m sceptical to be honest: the Guardian claimed to do the same - and it was quite big news apparently, even warranting a couple of posts on CIF - yet the student media award shortlists weren’t released until months after they’d been judged).
They can get away with it more easily on a weekly paper, as they can develop stories more fully over the course of a week for the final print product, so the content of each medium isn’t exactly the same. Daily papers, on the other hand, are giving away their entire content for free.
There was no mention of local paper websites as a means of ex-pats, or even people just living in a different part of the country, keeping up to date with what’s going on at “home”. I use the Northern Echo’s website for that very purpose (and to indulge my penchant for debate by arguing on the letters pages - in my defence, I’m 300 miles away from my “local” pub).
Perhaps it would be a good idea for local newspaper websites to keep a close eye on where their hits are coming from.
