2019-08-30

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'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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2019-08-30 E-Edition

A glowing evening

COLORFUL DISPLAY—Hot air balloons were on display and available for tethered rides during Glow, a dining experience presented by Simi Cares Foundation at Rancho Santa Susana Community Park on Sat., Aug. 24. Proceeds from the event will go to the Simi Valley Free Clinic. At left, Brea resident Joe Vertrees holds a tethered line for one of the hot air […]

Council adopts meeting protocol

FREE Rules dictate proper decorum, allow mayor to limit public-speaking time


Following a series of raucous, lengthy meetings, Simi Valley city leaders have voted to adopt written protocol governing council meetings. Simi was one of the only cities in the county without such rules. “While oral tradition may have worked in the past, as our community has evolved, it makes sense to document those procedures,” Deputy City Manager Samantha Argabrite said. […]

Rotary Club putting Cajun Fest on ice



Upbeat blues and zydeco music, flavor-packed food, lively dancing and colorful garb evoke vi s ions of Mardi Gras. But those traditions won’t be coming back t o Rancho Santa Susana Community Park next year. After three decades of rocking it Cajun style, the Rotary Club of Simi Valley Sunrise announced Wednesday that it will take a break from staging […]

Potential censure draws warning from attorney

FREE

Ripple effects produced by the outcry over a video posted on social media last month by Councilmember Ruth Luevanos are still coursing through the community. On Aug. 14, Luevanos was officially served with a Notice of Intention to Circulate a Recall Petition for allegedly violating the city’s code of ethics and conduct. The notice came from Joe Piechowski, one of […]

Contest rewards brevity

In today’s world of apps, where the writing and thinking are often done for you, the Simi Valley Acorn places high value on personal creativity. One of the newspaper’s most popular and enduring competitions is Fiction in a Nutshell, and this year the longtime contest returns. Entries are being accepted for the 2019 Fiction in a Nutshell competition, which calls […]

Answer to recycling woes is not to stop recycling

EDITORIAL

There’s been a lot of news coming out of the recycling world in recent months, none of it good. As you’ve probably heard, China has stopped accepting all kinds of plastics, papers and other products, leaving America’s waste haulers without a place to sell their reusable items. With nowhere else to turn, millions of tons of discards with the potential […]

Political Cartoon

Impressed with Rep. Hill’s work

I want to thank the Acorn for sitting down with Rep. Katie Hill and asking her about some of the nation’s most pressing issues. Every single topic in the article affects Simi Valley residents directly. In 2018, the majority of us decided that we needed a congressperson who would demand aggressive climate action. The representative has started down this path […]

Not fit for the presidency

Recently, presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren tweeted out accusations that the 2015 death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., was a “murder” at the hands of a white policeman. Murder is defined as the unlawful, killing of one human being by another. These comments by Harris, a former prosecutor, and Warren, also a lawyer, were purposeful and calculated […]