Category Archives: Croydon Advertiser

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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Croydon’s silly season stats which do not stand up to scrutiny

Posted on September 3, 2016 by

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 →

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Former Advertiser reporter: ‘the paper is now beyond saving’

Posted on August 2, 2016 by

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 →

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Former reporter in bitter attack against ‘clickbait’ Advertiser

Posted on July 30, 2016 by

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 →

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