Seacoastonline.com Portsmouth

As a decades long subscriber, we recently canceled. USA Today has gutted this paper, with only a couple of actual reporters on the ground. There is typically only 2 pages of actual local news, 1/2 of that is drafted from press releases or other sources. The rest is USA Today filler. And, it’s is 3x as expensive as a much better, non-profit owned statewide paper in Maine. Sad to see what has happened to the state of local news in NH, but in the Seacoast in particular.

Works well. Much better than the online version which is a real pain to sign into. My only tiny gripe is reading the comics. You cannot lay the phone sideways and easily expand the images. The Herald is my primary source for news in the morning

• Yesterday, Wednesday, March 3rd there was a fire in the Hanover Street parking garage. Expected a full lead story of the damage, cause and future impact…nothing. • SeaCoast Online repeats stories and editorials for days on end. In some cases they will run the same story for almost a week. For me, it is incredibly hard to clearly identify the new stories. • If you want to report a story, it is virtually impossible to reach anyone. SeaCoast Online does not provide a telephone number or e-mail address that I can find. Maybe the print edition I don’t get provides this information. • If you need help, the e-mail address is a black hole. Calling the provided helpline gets you a person in Afghanistan, Pakistan ro India where the King’s English is their second language. They are totally useless. • Actually went to their facility at Pease which is only a printing facility. They laughed when I asked for a office telephone number, volunteered no would answer. Newspapers are key to a democracy and are threatened by numerous internal and external factors. Wish I knew how to help…