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brooklynite

(94,595 posts) Mon Apr 23, 2018, 01:24 PM Apr 2018

Chicago Sun-Times leaves front page blank, pleads for subscribers: 'We need you to be there for us' [View all]

Source: The Hill

The Chicago Sun-Times left its front page blank in a plea for subscribers on Monday in an effort to “protect the long-term survival” of its newsroom.

The unorthodox appeal comes one month after the 174-year-old newspaper completed a round of layoffs as it struggles with falling advertising revenue from its print edition.

The Sun-Times has been working to build digital subscriptions for content that readers in the past have gotten for free.

“We’re asking you to please support our daily work by subscribing to our website for $7.49 a month. That’s less than 25 cents a day,” writes the paper in a story titled “Imagine Chicago without the Sun-Times: An urgent appeal.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/media/384423-chicago-sun-times-leaves-front-page-blank-pleas-for-subscribers-we-need-you-to

I pay for the NY Times, the Daily News, the Washington Post and the Guardian. How many news outlets do you subcsribe to?

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Chicago Sun-Times leaves front page blank, pleads for subscribers: 'We need you to be there for us' [View all] brooklynite Apr 2018 OP

I get the Washington Post MiniMe Apr 2018 #1

I get my local paper the SF Chronicle delivered everyday kimbutgar Apr 2018 #2

I used to subscribe to four. Hugin Apr 2018 #3

i buy the ny times and milw journal dembotoz Apr 2018 #4

I have been a subscriber for some time to the Washington Post & still subscribe to it. I dropped my DylanUSC Apr 2018 #5

I subscribe to my local paper, the Cincinnati Enquirer, and their weekly neighborhood offshoot. No Vested Interest Apr 2018 #6

I pay for 2 subscriptions FakeNoose Apr 2018 #7

Just so people know, this is the more progressive paper in the city. The other paper, pnwmom Apr 2018 #8

they were recently acquired by a group of very progressive chicagoans. mopinko Apr 2018 #11

I subscribe to the NYT, WP, Philly Inquirer, Mother Jones, Nation BumRushDaShow Apr 2018 #9

Washington Post Corgigal Apr 2018 #10

Wa post and my local paper. nt flygal Apr 2018 #12

Times, Post, Guardian Vanity Fair, New Yorker elfin Apr 2018 #13

I tend to buy from the newsstand. LisaM Apr 2018 #14

I'm an avid consumer of newspapers and have four subscriptions. Wuddles440 Apr 2018 #15

It would be interesting to know the ages of those of us who have responded to the OP. No Vested Interest Apr 2018 #16

WaPo DAMANgoldberg Apr 2018 #17

Same problem locks Apr 2018 #18

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette DeminPennswoods Apr 2018 #19