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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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Two-thirds of Croydon Guardian staff to quit the paper
This week’s edition of the local free newspaper, the Croydon Guardian, could be the last seen in the borough for a while. It will certainly be the very last newspaper on which journalists with good contacts and an understanding of … Continue reading
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
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
Sadvertiser circulation slumps by 70,000 in four years
The Redhill-based Sadvertiser has seen its circulation crash by 70,000 copies in four years, to the point where the local paper is on average now selling fewer than 8,000 copies each week. The collapse in sales for the Sadvertiser – … Continue reading
Sadvertiser’s senior journalist to leave paper after 46 years
The Redhill-based Croydon Sadvertiser‘s longest serving journalist, Ian Austen, is to leave the paper. Austen is retiring, Inside Croydon understands, at the end of May after nearly 46 years with the paper and its related titles. In more recent times, … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Local media
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Sadvertiser, Tory
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New Croydon rhyming slang: “Anne Giles” = pain in the …
A hat-tip to regular reader “Jo of Brighton”, who has brightened up our Tuesday afternoon by directing us to a blog called the Nether Regions, which spends all its time ridiculing the extraordinarily naffness and parochialism of local papers.
Posted in Comedy, Local media
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Sadvertiser, Emile Heskey, Gary Glitter, London, London Borough of Croydon, Ruby Murray, Sadvertiser
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