Journalists preparing to publish a new newspaper in the town where a regional daily went weekly earlier this year have launched a website.
Scarborough Voice will be published three times a week from September and has been set up after the Scarborough Evening News moved to weekly publication in May.
Journalists who lost their jobs on the News as a result of the frequency change will be among the eight-person team behind the new title which will be published on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays with an initial print run of 10,000.
A Scarborough Voice website is now live and Steven Thurston, a co-founder and designer, said it had already received a good response.
He said: “We wanted the website to be easy to use, and easy for people in the community to send in content. We have already had almost 500 views and we have only been live for 2 days.
“People have already started to send us content and we want to encourage as many people to use the site as possible, so we can have the best possible launch for our newspaper, with the community truly contributing to it.
“Anyone can contribute to our newspaper, and this is another point of contact for anyone who wishes to do so.”
The team is now aiming for the paper to be published for the first time on Wednesday 19 September.
The 20-page paper is due to go on sale at 25p – half the price of the old Evening News and a quarter of the new £1 weekly version.
The Scarborough News was one of the five Johnston Press daily titles to go weekly last month, along with the Halifax Courier, Northampton Chronicle & Echo, Northants Telegraph and Peterborough Telegraph.
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Good luck to them.
Obviously two titles in a weak market won’t both survive the global decline in newspapers as a product.
Bless them for trying.
Undercutting their rivals in price is a bold start.
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Good luck with the new paper. Hope all goes well.
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I can see it doing well. People vote on price and if people buy all three they will pay just 75p. That sounds like a bargain to me for regular newspaper news and it’s well priced to ensure an impulse purchase. Good luck.
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Nice website. Go into your WordPress admin though and remove the Uncategorized bit. And put News and Sport first and second from the left rather than Business and Community. See if you can get a more visual-based slider as well to give the top some real impact.
Some little tips. Hope they help.
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Good luck to all. Many hacks will be willing you to succeed. Provides an alternative to the dole queue if the axe falls.
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Echo hmmmm’s sentiments
Good luck and fingers crossed for you all
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I have read the comments and story above with interest. Although I am sure there are many Scarborians who will welcome the new publication, I am rather perplexed at the statement: “The 20-page paper is due to go on sale at 25p – half the price of the old Evening News and a quarter of the new £1 weekly version”.
The Voice is printing three times a week, which makes a total cost of £0.75 for 60 pages (20 x 3) = £0.0125 per page, whereas the Scarborough News is never smaller than a 136 page paper, which equates to (£1.00 for 136 pages) £0.00735 per page, which is nearly half! Last week the publication was 168 pages = £0.00595 per page.
I know which I would rather pay. £0.75 for 60 pages, or £1.00 for at least 136…… no contest!
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I always buy my papers by the page rather than what is in it…what a nonsensical argument Hilary……
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It doesn`t matter to me how much it costs per square inch, I want up to date and breaking news, not week-old reporting.
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In response to a comment made by Hillary Mead, The Scarborough News has been reduced in pages, it has reduced from 136 pages to 128 pages for the last few weeks.
Perhaps they are struggling to retain advertisers (who knows) I think that they are struggling personally. Not very happy people in Scarborough (Especially the Newsagents)
I truly hope that the proposed paper Scarborough Voice does come to fruition despite their problems in launching, as I have been steadily become disillusioned with the new and improved The Scarborough News.
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