Category Archives: Croydon Advertiser

Sadvertiser ‘celebrates’ 150th anniversary with a sales slump

Posted on February 19, 2020 by

Our local meeja correspondent, RAY GREENSLIDE, on the continuing decline and fall of a once-proud Croydon institution (another one) Fewer than 1 in 100 Croydon residents bothered to buy a copy of the Croydon Sadvertiser each week in 2019. What … Continue reading →

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Council leader: ‘Seven reasons never to move to Croydon’

Posted on April 30, 2019 by

Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on how Tony Newman has shown again that he ought not be allowed loose on the interweb unsupervised The increasingly error-prone Tony Newman, Labour’s leader of Croydon Council, dropped another bollock this morning, when he cheerily … Continue reading →

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Advertiser’s circulation falls below 5,000 per week for first time

Posted on March 1, 2019 by

Our local meeja correspondent, RAY GREENSLIDE, sifts through some figures which suggest the demise of a once proud Croydon institution The Croydon Sadvertiser, under the editorship of Andy Worden, sold a miserable 3,533 copies in one sorry week last year. … Continue reading →

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Guildford-based Sadvertiser to merge into London website

Posted on December 5, 2018 by

The Guildford-based Croydon Sadvertiser is about to dump its own dedicated website. In the latest move in the slow, painful and largely self-inflicted demise of the borough’s own local newspaper, it is being  reported that the newspaper’s publishers are to … Continue reading →

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They’re wild about Harry. But Harry’s not wild about Croydon

Posted on March 25, 2018 by

Red faces all round at a small-circulation newspaper based in Guildford, after they ran a story about Prince Harry planning to attend a charity dinner at Croydon Town Hall last night. Problem is, the charity doesn’t exist. And there was … Continue reading →

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Year Zero at Sadvertiser as local paper abandons archive

Posted on September 26, 2017 by

It’s as if nothing has happened in Croydon over the past 15 years, if the website of the Guildford-based Croydon Sadvertiser is anything to go by. The non-local paper, which abandoned its home town in 2013 to save a few … Continue reading →

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More redundancies at free paper take news off the agenda

Posted on September 8, 2016 by

Most of the journalists – or at least, any journalists who are left – at local free papers the Croydon Guardian and the Sutton Guardian have been put on notice of redundancy by the company which owns them, Newsquest, in … Continue reading →

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