The Fallon Post will now have three separate products: online, print, and a monthly magazine called – (drum roll, please…) The Fallon Magazine. Our readers will have the option to subscribe to one or all of these products, using the “Subscribe” button on our website at www.TheFallonPost.org
With any luck, by the time you’re reading this we will have overcome the four-hundred-and-thirty-seven challenges that plagued our efforts over the past two weeks to develop our online subscription page. For those of you who experienced our embarrassing stumbles, and the false start on Monday, thank you for your patience. And for that one lady who got so mad at me because it was all too complicated, I hope you come back and try again. It wasn’t nearly as complicated for you as it has been for us.
Of course, we do have the old-school form here in the paper for those of you who do not want to use our painfully produced, fancy, pay-online-service, and for those of you who took advantage of the November early signing special, thank you so much.
We know some of you prefer the online edition and some of our readers only want print, and then there are some of you, like me, who love every piece of news we can get our hands on, so we’re hoping we can meet your needs and get the news out to as many people as possible.
We are really excited about the magazine which will be a feature of our community rather than regular news. We will have longer stories about our history, our culture, our local artists and musicians and writers. We will also be featuring longer pieces on local businesses and stories about the industries that support our community. The first edition is planned for December 28th and will be available where you buy the weekly paper.
As you know, we started The Fallon Post by making it free to everyone and relied on contributions and advertising to make the business end work. After much deliberation and soul-searching, it has become clear that we have to do something different if we’re going to keep this thing alive and keep providing the community with the news we need to function properly in our representative democracy.
With that in mind, we are hoping you will support our decision to shift to a paid subscription for both print and online. Starting today, (God willing and the creek don’t rise – if you go online and there is no paywall you’ll know we were not successful again) most of the website stories will be located behind a paywall and will require a subscription to read them. As we work through this transition please be patient, there may be other tweaks we will still need to make. If you have any questions after reading this or as we go along, please just contact me and we will make it right. [email protected]
Additionally, if you have made an online contribution to the paper in the past two years, we used your email and created an account for you and you will have a month of access to the online paper (if you pay by the month this gives us the opportunity to shift your payment to the new system), along with the printed version we’ve been sending you. Each of you should have gotten an email last Sunday with your login and password and you will get a reminder the last week of December to renew your subscription. At that time, you can decide which products you want and can do your subscription then.
If you sent us a contribution through the mail at any time during the past two years, we may not have your email address and we did not create an account for you. If you let me know with a phone call or email that you would like a free month of online access, I will create an account for you for the month of December and send you the login information.
This was a really difficult decision to make, but we’re hoping you will understand. We have decided to keep basic access to the paper open to everyone for obituaries, community announcements, the event calendar, and the classifieds. Additionally, we are shifting the COVID news to its own section and that information will be open to everyone as well.
Additionally, everyone will have access to one free article a day so if you’re scrolling through Facebook and a story catches your eye, you can read that one and then hopefully, you will see more news that you can’t live without and will subscribe.
When it comes right down to it, we know the community needs to know what is going on with our local government, our local organizations, elections, and in this time of COVID, the latest in the local decisions that impact us in terms of public health. It takes resources to produce this news and over the past two years we have developed a reputation of providing timely, relevant, coverage of the community. We hope you agree, and we hope you will support us so we can keep doing that.
Again, to subscribe go to the webpage and click on the “subscribe” button. (I’m praying that thing is going to work right this time)
Thank you so much for your continued support, and as always, please send suggestions, ideas, tips, and leads to us at [email protected].
Keeping you posted,
Rach
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