2010-03-26

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Acorn online content now offered free

'Paywall' removed

The new millennium has been a transformative time for newspaper publishing.

Changing reader habits and the advent of new technology have placed big demands on companies in the print news business.

The Acorn and its parent company, Times Media Group, understand that their biggest responsibility is not only the delivery of credible, relevant information in a timely fashion, but making sure residents have easy access to the publication when stories become available.

That’s why we’re super excited about the news being shared today.

Following a five-year stretch in which Acorn readers were given the option of purchasing online subscriptions to the paper, that so-called “paywall” is coming down.

“Mr. Publisher, tear down this wall,” the late President Ronald Reagan might have once said.

And so we did.

Starting immediately, all online content from our five Acorn publications will be available at no charge to the reader, meaning a paid subscription is no longer required to click and read articles. The weekly Acorn has always been delivered to your driveway at no cost—that more than 40-year tradition will continue—and from now on The Acorn on the internet will be free as well.

Why the change?

The Acorn is your community newspaper, and we want to make sure it stays that way. We believe it’s important that residents feel a connection to the stories we write and also learn about the businesses that advertise in their community. The absence of a paywall is the best way to ensure this free-flow of information remains.

We also invite readers to sign up for the new, easy-to-read Acorn newspaper e-edition delivered weekly to your e-mail. Viewed on mobile, desktop or laptop, the pages are super easy to navigate and, free, just like the print paper.

Local journalism is first gear in the engine that drives America’s free press, and a free press it shall be.

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FOR THE BIRDS



Church to host Easter egg hunt



Discovery Church of Simi Valley will host a giant egg hunt on Easter Sunday, April 4 at the Royal High School field, 1402 Royal Ave. Registration is 9 a.m. Children can start searching for the 20,000 candy-filled eggs on the field at 10 a.m. An Easter service will follow at 10:30 a.m. The event is for children ages 1 to […]

Hunger walk is focus of upcoming meeting



Those interested in leading a CROP (Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty) Hunger Walk team should attend the Recruiter Rally from 10 a.m. to noon Sat., April 10 at the United Methodist Church of Simi Valley, 2394 Erringer Road. The Simi Valley 5K CROP Hunger Walk will take place May 16. Funds raised will benefit the Samaritan Center of Simi Valley and […]

Rabbis took trip to Utah



Mark Paredes will discuss a recent trip he made with five local rabbis to Utah, where they met with Mormon leaders and toured Mormon landmarks, this Saturday at 7 p.m. at the LDS Church, 480 Sinaloa Road, Simi Valley. Paredes is on the High Council of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Santa Monica Stake. Jewish themes in […]

Foster care families needed



Children’s Bureau is seeking families to consider adopting one of the 129,000 children in foster care The agency will have an information meeting for those interested in learning more from 7 to 8:15 p.m. Wed., March 31 at the Grant Brimhall/Thousand Oaks Library, 1401 E. Janss Road. Children’s Bureau has finalized more than 1,000 adoptions for families across six counties […]

DAR donates book on condors



The Conejo Valley Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution recently donated copies of “Condor: Spirit of the Canyon” by American Indian author Robert Mesta to libraries in Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, Simi Valley, Moorpark, Camarillo and Newbury Park. The books are shelved in the children’s section. Barbara Spiegel, chapter regent, and Pat Griffin, chapter librarian, presented the books, […]

Amateur radio class offered



The Conejo Valley Amateur Radio Club will be conducting an amateur radio license training program from 7 to 8:45 p.m. for eight Fridays starting April 2 at the East County Sheriff’s Station, 2101 E. Olsen Road, Thousand Oaks. The technician license class is the entry level for amateur radio. The final exam for licensing will be given on a Sunday […]

Students Put On A Show



Crash claims lives of two young adults

Police trying to determine what caused driver to run red light

More than a week after a fatal traffic collision at Royal Avenue and Sinaloa Road claimed the lives of two young Simi residents, there are still questions about what caused the teenage driver involved in the accident to run a red light. This week, the family of that driver provided the Acorn with the girl’s phone records, which they say […]

Former secretary takes aim at Geoff Dean

Sheriff candidate calls her timing into question

She says she’s finally ready to tell her side of the story. He says it’s part of a smear campaign against him. She says no one asked her to come forward and that he should have been fired. He says a 13-page report filed by the Ventura County Civil Service Commission more than a year ago found him innocent of […]