It is because of readers that ArkansasNewsroom.com marks its third birthday today.
Or at least, that’s when the site went live. The planning and all the backend work began months earlier but for these purposes, I don’t count that time.
This is post 1,579 and not really done writing yet, so there’s more to come plus the newsletter that will be in your in-boxes later today.
Counting today’s, there’s been about 200 newsletters published over the last three years and each newsletter checks in, on average, at 6,000 words. So, there’s been about 1.2 million words over the last 36 months or roughly 15 novels.
That’s quite a bit. It is said that every newspaper reporter has a book in them, and for most, that’s where they should stay, but I appreciate all the hard work of the contributors over the last three years and I look forward to more words to come in the future.
Local news isn’t profitable. ArkansasNewsroom.com mostly covers the expense of hosting and email distribution but that’s only because I don’t draw a salary for these efforts. Local news also doesn’t generate a ton of clicks but I’ve eschewed the click bait model as that’s just not good journalism.
Knowing about the bankruptcies, divorces, arrests and the like can be good for the gossip, and it would generate traffic, but it is not good for the gander that is my soul because it is gross.
And, anyway, the traffic and readership exceeds the efforts of the now deceased Maumelle Monitor and Times of North Little Rock newspapers. They, and the Lonoke County papers, have now been gone more than five years now and while I’ll never get over that, this has been good.
So, please, keep reading, Please, keep subscribing and, if you’re able, pay for a subscription because getting a check from this, someday, would be great. But, in the meantime, it is working and please keep reading.
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It is because of readers that ArkansasNewsroom.com marks its third birthday today.
Or at least, that’s when the site went live. The planning and all the backend work began months earlier but for these purposes, I don’t count that time.
This is post 1,579 and not really done writing yet, so there’s more to come plus the newsletter that will be in your in-boxes later today.
Counting today’s, there’s been about 200 newsletters published over the last three years and each newsletter checks in, on average, at 6,000 words. So, there’s been about 1.2 million words over the last 36 months or roughly 15 novels.
That’s quite a bit. It is said that every newspaper reporter has a book in them, and for most, that’s where they should stay, but I appreciate all the hard work of the contributors over the last three years and I look forward to more words to come in the future.
Local news isn’t profitable. ArkansasNewsroom.com mostly covers the expense of hosting and email distribution but that’s only because I don’t draw a salary for these efforts. Local news also doesn’t generate a ton of clicks but I’ve eschewed the click bait model as that’s just not good journalism.
Knowing about the bankruptcies, divorces, arrests and the like can be good for the gossip, and it would generate traffic, but it is not good for the gander that is my soul because it is gross.
And, anyway, the traffic and readership exceeds the efforts of the now deceased Maumelle Monitor and Times of North Little Rock newspapers. They, and the Lonoke County papers, have now been gone more than five years now and while I’ll never get over that, this has been good.
So, please, keep reading, Please, keep subscribing and, if you’re able, pay for a subscription because getting a check from this, someday, would be great. But, in the meantime, it is working and please keep reading.
Onto year four.
Jeremy