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General Category => Chesterfield Discussion => Topic started by: Pete on October 09, 2012, 12:58:32 PM

Title: Chesterfield Advertiser closed
Post by: Pete on October 09, 2012, 12:58:32 PM

Just read that they have closed the Chesterfield Advertiser free paper. The owners, Johnston Press, are keeping the Derbyshire Times which had a price increase just recently.

Is this another nail in the coffin of the printed press as the web slowly takes over? I can see a small role in the future, but only a small one.

Title: Re: Chesterfield Advertiser closed
Post by: Alsatian on October 09, 2012, 01:04:25 PM

Is that to ensure people continue to buy the DT at its' inflated price, as we can no longer get similar information free from the Advertiser?

Title: Re: Chesterfield Advertiser closed
Post by: chesterfieldchris on October 09, 2012, 01:29:38 PM

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Title: Re: Chesterfield Advertiser closed
Post by: Pete on October 09, 2012, 05:11:02 PM

TBH I think there will, for a while yet anyway, be a market for the DT. There are older people who only buy it for the the obituaries - and I don't think most of them have web access. Which also begs the question, do local obituaries appear on the web?

Title: Re: Chesterfield Advertiser closed
Post by: Fly on October 09, 2012, 05:50:10 PM

The obituaries online are pretty useless IMHO.

Title: Re: Chesterfield Advertiser closed
Post by: Pete on October 09, 2012, 05:58:32 PM

Where are they?

Title: Re: Chesterfield Advertiser closed
Post by: handy on October 09, 2012, 06:14:31 PM

I have seen them via the Sheffield Star online ,and you can light a candel and leave a message ,did it with a cousin of mine.

Title: Re: Chesterfield Advertiser closed
Post by: Fly on October 09, 2012, 06:20:56 PM

Exactly, useless.

Here's all the obits for October 2012 so far. Not that easy to find  :(
http://announce.jpress.co.uk/browse?s_source=jpno_dtj;type=obit (http://announce.jpress.co.uk/browse?s_source=jpno_dtj;type=obit)