Talk:The Local

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It would be useful if someone could be found who has insight into "The Local"'s business model and editorial policy and could comment on it. On examining the site, I found that there are numerous so-called "sponsored articles." These are article-length advertisements for various companies and services--the online equivalent of infomercials on TV. I haven't seen this on other news sites yet. It would be interesting to know more about it. PhiladelphiaBoy (talk) 16:36, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I know one of their writers. I will ask him if he feels like directing me to some info. JMEscriva (talk) 14:40, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

German-language article

Hi, a version of this in German language would be favourable: de:The Local -- Cheers Horst-schlaemma (talk) 13:44, 9 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Political leanings

They can't be perfectly neutral, so do they lean left or right in editorial?--74.57.167.219 (talk) 06:03, 25 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Czech edition

The article fails to mention they have a Czech edition although updates seem to be rather intermittent at the moment. 86.146.219.201 (talk) 01:11, 19 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Dubious

While this article is short and not very informative (it merely repeats claims of the company promoted on this page), it is still dubious. The impact of "The Local" in Europe is unclear, it seems certain that there is none. On this page there are claims, that there are "local teams" for local news - but the "news" on the sites don't even have names of the writer. Googling any sentence of any news post on this site will list dozens to hundreds of generic news sites repeating them word for word, as they are generically generated for other Ad- and PR-bait sites just like "The Local". I vote for removal, as this wiki page merely is an Ad for a highly dubious business. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ThomasG-gPM (talk • contribs) 00:33, 30 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It is a real paper, with a staff of real journalists in each country where it publishes. Serving a real community of Expats fluent in English but not in the local language. Removing this tag and replacing it with "Primary" template for article.E.M.Gregory (talk) 11:00, 21 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know which version Thomas is talking about but I tested the Swedish version and of the three articles I checked all seemed to be original. They have a list of staff, including journalists, at their web site [1]´and they were nominated for Digital newapaper of the year. On a more personal note, I find that the paper reports Swedish news much in the same way as other Swedish news organisations. I agree with E.M.Gregory that this is a real paper. Sjö (talk) 10:37, 26 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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