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Evening Herald to launch website

  • 09-03-2008 3:53pm
    #1
    Dundalk Daily
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    Speaking on RTE radio earlier today the Herald editor announced that they will launch a website in the next two months. Is this an attempt to cling onto a dwindling readership?


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  • #2
    aphex™
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    Dundalk Daily wrote: »
    Speaking on RTE radio earlier today the Herald editor announced that they will launch a website in the next two months. Is this an attempt to cling onto a dwindling readership?

    Dwindling? It's sells out very quickly in central Dublin.. dunno about anywhere else.


  • #3
    gurramok
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    Only thing i like about Hearld is their local info and especially the crime/court section :D

    Now if they like other Indo titles leave their stupid uneducated columnists, the sensationalism and harping on about certain models out, it wouldn't be asking too much.


  • #4
    A Dub in Glasgo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,575 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    It is 2008 and a newspaper is talking about lauching a website in a couple of months time! Have they just sleepwalked through the last decade or something?


  • #5
    speedboatchase
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    We all better brush up on our Polish so


  • #6
    lostexpectation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    don't they already have a website independent.ie

    the usefullness of the herald is that it is evening newspaper, so you can get some of todays news as opposed to the other papers,
    there only a handful of local and crime stories not already on the web


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  • #7
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »
    It is 2008 and a newspaper is talking about lauching a website in a couple of months time! Have they just sleepwalked through the last decade or something?

    And what's worse is that they'll be one of (if not the) first Irish tabloids to have a fully-fledged website (If I remember correctly The Star had a basic online presence but their site is down now anyway.)

    I wouldn't see myself reading a Herald website but it's good to see all the same, even though it's about 10 years behind the rest of the world. What are the odds that the site will look almost identical to the re-designed Independent.ie site - given that INM's London newspaper used the exact same template in its online relaunch.


  • #8
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    According the the ABC's latest Island of Ireland report - it's down 4.3% year on year for week days and 1.9% for the Saturday edition.


  • #9
    jdivision
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,260 ✭✭✭jdivision


    Herald readership has been falling for years, part of an international trend of evening newspaper falls but also partly because it's awful rubbish


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