Six Hearst Connecticut
Digital and
print subscribers to the Connecticut Post, New Haven Register, Danbury
News-Times, Stamford Advocate, Greenwich Time and Norwalk Hour can get access
to the papers’ “premium local news coverage, including investigative and
enterprise reporting and analysis, features and columnists, on a newly
designed, easier to read website,” Matt DeRienzo, vice president of news
and digital content at Hearst Connecticut Media Group, announced.
The papers
are offering an “Insider” experience, “an unprecedented invitation into the
process our newsrooms use to decide which local issues, problems and
opportunities to cover.” Subscribers will receive a daily email newsletter with
a guide to the papers’ journalism and a behind-the-scenes look at
decision-making. They’ll have access to reporters, columnists and experts
through live chats and a subscribers-only Facebook group, along with
invitations to monthly in-person coffees with the editors, the announcement
said.
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commenting on both the free and premium portions of the papers’ websites will
be open to subscribers only, and reporters and editors will participate with
readers in that forum.
For readers
who already subscribe to the print edition or e-edition of the newspaper, the
Insider digital subscription will be available at no extra cost. A digital
subscription to one of the six Connecticut
The
announcement addresses this question: Why start charging when readers have been
able to consume local news coverage for free online? “A significant investment
goes into employing the reporters, photographers and editors who cover local
schools and government, breaking news and crime, local sports, business and
state issues,” the announcement says.
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