So there it is, my local paper is going weekly, an action that will mean it will eventually close, the Johnston Press owners moving it online, just a Wednesday edition printed to cover the lucrative earner of property sales. Most of the advertising revenue it was chasing to keep its head above the water has gone online and so the paper has had to surrender to that fact. They were shifting 20,000 copies a week at 50p, Northampton one of Europe’s biggest towns, but those sales not big enough for the owners, showing zero social responsibility by doing what they have. With the last editions coming ...
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