Oct8

all the news that’s fit to print.

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as a huge fan of reading newspapers in print, i loved reading this news in print:

There’s currently a French castle that’s channeling the past and being built using only medieval construction methods. County Highway has a similar premise, but for the publishing industry.

The U.S.-based newspaper, which launched its first edition over the summer, costs $8.50 and will distribute six issues per year. Most notably, it’s print-only, meaning you won’t find any of its stories online.

“People read differently on the printed page than they do on a screen,” editor David Samuels told  The Observer. “The printed page is an immersive experience without constant distractions or the specter of other people’s responses on social media. It’s a much more enriching and human experience.”

Styled after 19th century broadsheets, County Highway cites Charles Dickens, Bob Dylan, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, and Tom Wolfe as inspirations. And there’s clearly an appetite for it: Samuels said the team hit their year-three subscription and sales targets within three weeks of putting out the first issue. “The response has been tremendous,” he added.

check it out below:

https://www.countyhighway.com

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“i read about eight newspapers in a day. when i’m in a town with only one newspaper, i read it eight times.”

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  1. When I was a kid, Switzerland had something similar with a title like ‘porch’ …. lived leafing through it, old fashioned b/w pics, a bit of everything, countryside minded.
    Good luck with this. Hopefully it will last.

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  3. I stopped buying national daily newspapers over 20 years ago, but used to buy the local paper in Beetley (covering the local town and surrounding areas) when I moved here in 2012. Sadly, the advertising inside was more than half of the newspaper’s content, and I eventually stopped buying that too.
    Best wishes, Pete.

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  5. I read a print newspaper every morning from the time I was little kid until just a few years ago–because of delivery problems and also I’ve often read most of it online. Now I have digital subscriptions to multiple newspapers, but I don’t read them the way I used to read one.

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  6. I’m a great believer in reading newspapers and magazines in print. IT’s how I like to read. Until recently I subscribed to ‘The New Yorker’ — I’ve got back copies going back to 2016 still. I get the bumper weekend edition of the Sydney Morning Herald. It occupies me all week :)

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  9. Wow…thanks for sharing about the rebirth of a broadsheet, Beth! I know a couple of people who will be thrilled to hear this news. (Friends who are die-hard “coffee w/a newspaper” folks in the morning.) 🥰

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  11. About the only thing I read in the newspaper is the crossword puzzle. (well almost the only thing). I don’t do the puzzle on line. It doesn’t have the same feeling as sitting at the breakfast table and wasting an extra half hour with an extra cup of coffee and with pen in hand. Yes, I do puzzles with pen … always have. :)

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  17. I finally gave up the printed newspaper when I moved here. At my apartment it was downstairs and somewhere out the door. Then I moved to this house with a lovely covered porch, and the delivery guy, in a car, couldn’t get the paper closer than in the gutter in the street. I got tired of spending half an hour trying to dry the thing out before I could read it. I no longer miss reading it, but I do miss having it to line things, pack things, wrap things, etc. The ink is still in my blood, but no longer on my fingers.

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  19. This is very interesting Beth,,,who doesn’t love a real newspaper to read and especially one with real news, stories, ideas, etc. without all the annoying ads and bs? It says you can find this paper at Encore Records in Ann Arbor. I wonder if that means you can buy it there or just go in, sit down and read it? :)

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  21. I wish them the best…we live in an electrified world, and the printed word is less relevant to people than ever…it’s one reason I don’t read books on electronic devices…as for news, many newspapers in smaller cities don’t even publish every day any longer…and I read that a bodega in New York used to sell a thousand copies of the massive Sunday edition of the New York Times, and now it’s down to less than 50…

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  22. The town of Saguache which is 30? miles north of me still prints its paper with a linotype machine. You can read about it here. It’s pretty cool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saguache_Crescent

    The magazine I was writing for seems to have died. The editor who bought it, sold it. There was supposed to be a new editor and printing company, but no September and no October edition and nothing online. I liked that it was paper. Our local newspaper is a joke and I hate it, but they keep delivering it to me. 🤣

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  29. As a one-time newspaper reporter and photographer many decades ago, I am a big fan of print journalism, although I now also read stories online. But I prefer print. I cringe every time someone tells me they no longer subscribe to our local paper because “it costs too much” or for some other reason. Some day, when we no longer have a newspaper in town, people will complain and wonder why. Why, indeed.

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