2010-09-09

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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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Progam helps families cope with cancer

Parents can learn how to communicate with children

The Wellness Community Valley/ Ventura will host a program for children with cancer and their parents and families titled “Parenting and Coping with the Impact of Childhood Cancer” from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Fri., Sept. 24 at 530 Hampshire Road, Westlake Village. Dinner will be served from 6:30 to 7 p.m. followed by the workshop from 7 to 8:30 p.m. […]

Westlake runs through earthquake prep list



Agoura lets Sam’s off the hook

No new laws for tobacco and pipe dealers

The Agoura Hills City Council will not pursue new, tougher laws regulating tobacco retailers, despite complaints earlier this year from residents who felt Sam’s Tobacco, Cigar and Hookah shop at Lake Lindero Drive was more like a “head shop” than a tobacco store. Head shops sell drug paraphernalia. Residents objected to the store because it’s in a residential neighborhood and […]

Deal struck in field lab cleanup

Site only 3 miles from Oak Park

Negotiations took a turn for the better last week in the more than 30-year battle to rid the Santa Susana Field Laboratory of its chemical and radiological contamination. The state of California reached a tenative agreement with two of the three parties responsible for the pollution at the former rocket engine and nuclear test site in the hills above the […]

Summer’s final fling in Calabasas



Wedding bells ring for high school sweethearts



Music fest seeks vendors, volunteers



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Fair offers fun to families



St. Jude the Apostle Church will host its annual Country Time Faire and fundraiser from 1 to 10 p.m. Sat., Sept. 25 and from 1 to 9 p.m. Sun., Sept. 25 at the church, corner of Lindero and Lakeview Canyon roads, Westlake Village. The event will have carnival rides, children’s games, marketplace boutique, silent auction and casino games. Raffle prizes […]

Luau offers a taste of the islands



Unitarians to show film



The documentary film “Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood,” which takes a critical look at marketing practices aimed at children, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Sat., Sept. 11 at the Conejo Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 3327 Old Conejo Road, Newbury Park. The documentary, written and directed by Adriana Barbaro and Jeremy Earp, raises questions about the ethics of children’s […]