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Out of curiosity I looked: Approx 25% higher than subscribing to the New York Times.
Haha, yeah I put that on Facebook a moment ago. It’s insane! I hope they’re able to hire more journalists and beef that paper up for that price. When I moved back down here in 2017, I went to Dollar Tree and picked up a physical copy of the paper. No lie, I had to ask the employees at Dollar Tree if this was the Dollar Tree version of The Daily Reflector because it was so thin, that I thought sections were missing.
I would imagine that our monthly subscription costs puts our paper as the most expensive in NC, at least among the top 20 largest cities.
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@BMORE at this price, it's just going to be prohibitive to new subscribers. Feels like they didn't do market research and priced based on projected deficits.
They won't be able to hire/beef up, they'll just continue on their current decline.
Would love to see the Raleigh N&O (or Wilmington Star-Tribune) buy out the Reflector and get a dedicated daily service with a Greenville-specific section. It's a model that's been done elsewhere (see Tampa Bay Times, with dedicated 'Clearwater Times' daily section) with success.
Using TBT as the example because it's one of the remaining independent periodicals in the country and is highly successful at it.
It is sad. There's a lot of folks trying to do good work there. There's already been a ton of consolidation over the last 5 years there. Basically running on skeleton crews already in most departments.
Weird thing is that is actually cheaper to just but the paper every day than to just get the digital only service.
.50 cents x 26 days =$13
$1.50 x 4 days = $6
$19/month for physical copies from a box.
What's the savings in a monthly subscription now??
The N&O has historically had good distribution in this part of the state. Greenville even had a dedicated reporter, retired a few years ago.
The management problems at the DR are local. I keep up with news in Boone and for a while had their paper delivered by mail. It’s a good paper, though it’s MWF and a smaller format. Adams Publishing Group, same owner as the Reflector, also owns that paper (Mountain Times/Watauga Democrat).
The DR seems to think too highly of themselves to skip days, but we’d have a better paper if they did.
They could probably have charged $8-10/month and gotten enough subscribers to offset the difference.
Fair take. the Watauga Democrat is a good local paper.
If you look at Adams' portfolio around the country, their strategy is pretty clearly to buy a distressed asset and strip it down. It becomes less of a newspaper and more of a local syndicate running stories that wouldn't make other local circulars. They own a couple of papers near where I grew up and I recognized both as being fairly shoddy print media used to justify ad dollars. There was little 'news' in either of them.
I took the SW Bypass today from the 264 intersection to Forlines Road. We need to be planning for growth in that direction, and looking to build mixed-use development as much as possible.
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