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STAFF REPORTS
hile other newspapers have jibber-
jabbered for years about dropping the
printed page for a total digital delivery,
Street Roots is actually making the leap!
As of April 1, Street Roots will be ending its
printed publication in favor of an enhanced online
media outlet.
Hormuth Williams, head of the SR vendor
union, says it’s a major step in
newspaper, which has grown fi
niche paper into a backbone pi
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Currently, vendors buy the paper for 25 cents
and sell it for $1, keeping the profit How that will
work with a strictly online product is not clear.
“Yeah, I don’t have the answer to that,”
Williams said. “Maybe we should rethink this.”
Sue Masters, who is a regular buyer of the
paper, says she’ll miss having the printed page,
but says she admits it had cut into her
smartphone time. “The app is awesome. I don’t
even have to stop walking to download the entire
paper!”
It was long ago when the Portland Tribune
made the move to being an online media outlet
over the printed page. No word on how that’s
will make a similar move in the future.
A Street Roots vendor gives a smile and a
thumbs up as he makes a sale to a passerby.
Customers need only to scan the code aroun
his neck to pick up a copy of the paper.
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cyclists for dope.
Chitter chatter
about what’s
happening in our
community.
Why do people
keep complaining
about drones?
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