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Tag Archives: Croydon Advertiser
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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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
Lawrence inquiry officer to chair council’s ethics committee
Local community leaders and politicians have reacted with disgust and anger at the news that the council’s ethics committee for the next year is to be chaired by David Osland, the former senior police officer who once advised colleagues in … Continue reading
Split edition Sadvertiser hit by 44% circulation crash
Circulation of the Croydon Advertiser has nose-dived by more than 40 per cent in just 12 months, according to independently audited figures published today. The paper’s sales bill last week said “Free cup of coffee for every reader”. Judging by … Continue reading
For Falks’ sake: Norwood tunnel’s overlooked coverage
In the past couple of weeks, Inside Croydon carried two pieces on the centenary of the foot tunnel at Norwood Junction: one, here, on its history, the other about the ceremony staged to mark the occasion, where Croydon’s partisan mayor … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Eddy Arram, Environment, History, Paul Scott, Transport, Woodside
Tagged Councillor, Croydon, Croydon Advertiser, Croydon Guardian, England, London, New Addington, Surrey
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Sadvertiser bows to pressure and drops brothel ads
It took more than 18 months, plus a couple of stern warnings from the police, and after some broken promises, the Croydon Advertiser has finally managed to deliver an edition on Friday which was clear of tawdry ads for brothels … Continue reading
Brothel ads are fine with me, says Croydon councillor
Dudley Mead, the deputy leader of Croydon Council‘s ruling Conservatives, has used public money from a government grant to place ads alongside classifieds for the borough’s brothels. “Cuddly”, who cuts a somewhat Captain Mainwaring figure at the Town Hall, was … Continue reading
