A twice-weekly newspaper gave its annual A-level results coverage a fresh twist today – after asking celebrating students to send in their selfies.
The Lynn News urged young readers to share their happy moments by capturing them on camera and sending them to the paper.
“We want you to share this moment of joy with us. Grab your results sheet, hold it high and smile for the camera,” said a story on the paper’s website.
The resulting pictures will now be printed in the next edition of the paper and published online.
One of the selfies sent into the Lynn News
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This is all a bit desperate isn’t it? Is that really the best they can do?
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Cheap, amateur way of filling a paper, just like JP!! The thing the greedy newspaper owners don’t realise is that they are bringing their products down to the level of Facebook. But Facebook is free. You can’t ever compete with it so don’t even try. A better option would be to produce a quality newspaper using quality staff, photographers and journalists. Taking selfies and phone photos from the public is only lowering the product quality. What company ever survived by lowering the quality of their product to the level of a free form of media but still charging high prices for it? Stupid stupid stupid!!
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Of course it is. Now they’ve made all their photographers redundant, they’ve no longer got any way of taking pix of leggy blonde teenagers jumping and waving their certificates. All they’ve got is selfies – blurred, badly composed, uncroppable…
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A slightly out-of-focus ‘selfie’ on the front will be all they have after their photographers were all shown the door.
Certainly wasn’t a ‘stop-and-buy-me-for-£1′ front page today. Again.
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This vanity publishing stuff every year is oh so dull. Get out into the community and find some real news and stuff the selfies where they belong. Oh dear, I despair of the people running newspapers (sorry multi media platforms). They will cost jobs with their pathetic dumbing down.
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