silverknight Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Today Johnson Press (owners of The Star & Sheffield Telegraph) has announced that it to relaunch its regional newspapers and websites this year. As part of this relaunch many of its local newspaper titles will go from weekday publication to weekly.Will be interesting to see what happens with The Star. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wednesday1 Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Well I for one, hope that it continues as a daily, It began the slippery slide when it lost it's independence and ceased to be owned by Sheffield Newspapers IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alas_alas Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 That would be Johnston Press, and their re-launch does not mention The Star by name - see their press release: http://www.johnstonpress.co.uk/jpplc/investorcentre/finnews/pressreleases/index.jsp?ref=169 The 'initial phase' of the process involving downscaling titles involves Halifax, Kettering, Northampton, Peterborough and Scarborough. That's not to say things might not change closer to home, but the 'drastic' phase is planned for July 2012. Not only The Star, but the Yorkshire Post, are the local Johnston Press titles. Would be potentially disastrous for local news to lose these to weekly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1978 Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 The Sheffield Morning Telegraph was/is also a Johnstone Press title and went to weekly about 15 years ago. The Sheffield evening Star is now the morning Star! Amalgamating the morning Star and the weekly Telegraph seems likely within 10 years - but how soon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Graham Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 The Sheffield Morning Telegraph was/is also a Johnstone Press title and went to weekly about 15 years ago. The Sheffield evening Star is now the morning Star! Amalgamating the morning Star and the weekly Telegraph seems likely within 10 years - but how soon? I thought The Morning Star was the preferred breakfast reading for the left wing loons: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/ Oh, now I get it. I see what you did there. Silly of me. If The Star closes it'll suck the oxygen of propaganda out of Comrade Dore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digglydog Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 I thought The Morning Star was the preferred breakfast reading for the left wing loons: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/ Oh, now I get it. I see what you did there. Silly of me. If The Star closes it'll suck the oxygen of propaganda out of Comrade Dore. I thought it was Scriven's personal propaganda machine. There didn't used to be a day go by without his mush being somewhere in it's pages . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudds1 Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 sooner the star goes the better .it,s too thin for curtains and too thick for bog paper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BHRemovals Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Star is failing since becoming a morning paper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laineyiow Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 On my visits to Sheffield I have read the Star at my mum's and thought how poor it is compared to say 10 years ago. I have often said to mum I don't know why they don't just make it a weekly paper! At least then there May be something to actually read in it. I think with the Internet you don't need to have a daily local paper and especially one where the 'news' is already a day late anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sedith Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Five Johnston Press daily papers to go weekly by the end of May. I think the writing is on the wall for the Star as a daily paper. The Star and Telegraph has a certain familiar ring to it? I really don't understand why anyone who is connected to the internet buys the Star when it is free available on line. http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2012/news/scarborough-evening-news-to-go-weekly-and-other-titles-could-follow/?utm_source=emailhosts&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Apr17Mailout Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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