The Croydon Advertiser is to go free from this week. Sales of the south London weekly, priced at 60p, have fallen below 15,000 (compared to 21,500 five years ago).
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According to its Wikipedia entry, the Advertiser’s alumni include David Randall, an executive on the Independent on Sunday and author of the excellent book The Universal Journalist, and Malcolm Starbrook, now the energetic editor of the East London Advertiser.
PS: I wrote recently about the Advertiser carrying an advert for a massage parlour that the paper then exposed as a brothel. According to the online news outlet, Inside Croydon, it has repeatedly published the ad in spite of a Northcliffe executive telling me it was an accident and that it would be pulled. See Steve Dyson’s sensible thoughts on this issue.
See the full article from “The Guardian”
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