Twice in almost as many months and we welcome yet another newspaper title to Rhuthun. Today’s the launch date of Trinity Mirror’s new free Denbighshire Visitor. It replaces Your Vale which, in June, itself superseded the erstwhile Vale Advertiser. And it’s again one day ahead of rival North Wales Newspapers’ Denbighshire Free Press.
Scroll down to see the expanded list of where you can expect to find your free Denbighshire Visitor.
The Denbighshire Visitor purports to cover the whole of Denbighshire, sweeping aside the Rhyl & Prestatyn Visitor and the Denbighshire part of the largely duplicative Abergele & St Asaph Visitor, as well as Your Vale. Such housekeeping removes some of the confusing Trinity Mirror weekly boundaries, while giving the new paper some ‘meat’ when compared to the meagre 24-28 page Your Vale. Abergele news moves to the North Wales Weekly News.
Regional newspapers are suffering and while it’s true that this relates most to daily and evening titles, weeklies are also a concern. Your Vale was designed to stimulate what Trinity Mirror had admitted in print had recently become a lacklustre Vale Advertiser offering. Did it work? Not really, though the website was a considerable, nay vast improvement.
In the medium term, media analysts predict that weeklies will continue to come under considerable pressure. Trinity Mirror’s Visitor series is already struggling in terms of falling advertising revenue and the reorganisation (plus up to 30 redundancies) aims at both short-term stability and longer-term sustainability. Industry-wide revenue is falling faster than at any time during the last 20 years.
Meanwhile, we’ll have to see how the shake up affects news reporting in Rhuthun and that other town of some significance in the Vale, Dinbych.
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Scroll down to see the expanded list of where you can expect to find your free Denbighshire Visitor.
The Denbighshire Visitor purports to cover the whole of Denbighshire, sweeping aside the Rhyl & Prestatyn Visitor and the Denbighshire part of the largely duplicative Abergele & St Asaph Visitor, as well as Your Vale. Such housekeeping removes some of the confusing Trinity Mirror weekly boundaries, while giving the new paper some ‘meat’ when compared to the meagre 24-28 page Your Vale. Abergele news moves to the North Wales Weekly News.
Regional newspapers are suffering and while it’s true that this relates most to daily and evening titles, weeklies are also a concern. Your Vale was designed to stimulate what Trinity Mirror had admitted in print had recently become a lacklustre Vale Advertiser offering. Did it work? Not really, though the website was a considerable, nay vast improvement.In the medium term, media analysts predict that weeklies will continue to come under considerable pressure. Trinity Mirror’s Visitor series is already struggling in terms of falling advertising revenue and the reorganisation (plus up to 30 redundancies) aims at both short-term stability and longer-term sustainability. Industry-wide revenue is falling faster than at any time during the last 20 years.
Meanwhile, we’ll have to see how the shake up affects news reporting in Rhuthun and that other town of some significance in the Vale, Dinbych.
Click here and here to see a total of 25 comments here on the local press.
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