Everyone in the community newspaper industry knows their readers skew older, so it was no surprise when a study of the ages of digital subscribers to the Times Record showed a considerable number were above age 50. This study was the subject of an article featured in:
The report compares user age demographics before implementing a paywall and the digital subscribers to the website after the paywall went up. Here's the full report in PDF.
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This six minute tutorial demonstrates how users can access news and business information on the Morning-Times.com, a daily newspaper in Sayre, PA. From the editorial content to advertiser index, this video explores the functionality and sleek new website design we provide to community newspapers across the country.
Watch the two-minute video below to learn how publishers, readers, and advertisers all benefit from the paywall model.
The Thomasville Times is now publishing using Our Hometown's latest web template. This template includes larger ads, top navigation, multiple columns for story pictures and headlines and teaser content with clickable section heads.
A small cluster of newspapers in Northwestern Pennsylvania, halfway between Erie and Pittsburgh, in 1997 started a Web site — a basic operation that published some stories culled from their print editions to go along with obits and classifieds. Twelve years later, a lifetime in Internet years, they decided it was time for an overhaul — and while they were at it, they concluded it was best to affix a price tag to that content. » Read more
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