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Re:London's Evening Standard axes daily print edition by k1t on Saturday June 01, 2024 @02:58AM (#40543521)
The Evening Standard was a newspaper that was available for free pickup at most London train/tube stations.

Many commuters picked up a copy to read on their journey home.

I don't think it was ever intended to compete with newspapers you paid to have delivered to your house.

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Re:London's Evening Standard axes daily print edition by louthy on Saturday June 01, 2024 @03:04AM (#40543546)
It wasn’t always free. It did originally compete with other newspapers.

Once Metro went free then it was inevitable the Standard would have to too. It seems even that model is not working for the Oligarch owner.

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Re:London's Evening Standard axes daily print edition by chgs on Saturday June 01, 2024 @04:10AM (#40543821)
It was “the London paper” and “London lite” that both launched in competition as evening papers which were free which killed the standard

Metro hastened the demise of the morning papers.

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