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Chinese whispers catch out part-time Perry over Nestlé Tower
Jason Perry’s reputation for non-delivery took another huge leap forward today with the news that a senior figure involved with the Chinese property company that owns the landmark Nestlé Tower in the town centre is wanted in the United States … Continue reading
Sadvertiser ‘celebrates’ 150th anniversary with a sales slump
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
Council leader: ‘Seven reasons never to move to Croydon’
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
Posted in Croydon Advertiser, Local media, Tony Newman
Tagged Croydon, Labour, London, Tony Newman
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Advertiser’s circulation falls below 5,000 per week for first time
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
Posted in Croydon Advertiser, Local media
Tagged Andy Worden, Croydon Advertiser, Croydon Sadvertiser, Reach
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Guildford-based Sadvertiser to merge into London website
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
Posted in Croydon Advertiser, Local media, London-wide issues
Tagged Andy Worden, Croydon, Croydon Advertiser, Croydon Sadvertiser, Sadvertiser
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Year Zero at Sadvertiser as local paper abandons archive
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
Posted in Croydon Advertiser, Local media
Tagged Croydon Advertiser, Croydon Sadvertiser, Gareth Davies
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More redundancies at free paper take news off the agenda
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
Croydon’s silly season stats which do not stand up to scrutiny
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The infamous maxim that if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth has flourished in Croydon this week. STEVEN DOWNES is just glad the silly season is over Thank goodness it’s September. I wouldn’t usually … Continue reading
Former Advertiser reporter: ‘the paper is now beyond saving’
Gareth Davies, until recently the Croydon Advertiser’s chief reporter, has today supplemented his Friday night Twitter outburst about the decline of the newspaper with a detailed essay which picks apart the decade-long disinvestment in local journalism, and journalists, by the … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Advertiser, Local media
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Advertiser, Croydon Sadvertiser, Gareth Davies
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Former reporter in bitter attack against ‘clickbait’ Advertiser
STEVEN DOWNES on an extraordinary Twitter outburst from a “heart broken” local newspaper journalist who says that redundancies and cut-backs at his old workplace have made things “really shit” The Croydon Sadvertiser is dead. It’s ceased to be. It’s pushing … Continue reading
