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A New Way to Read and be Read
Hold The News is a place for writers to express ideas and opinions without pressure from advertisers or editors to sell any particular product or service.
What you will immediately notice is that daily content is arranged in a single column - whatever appears in todays column (articles and ads) freezes at midnight and becomes yesterdays immutable column.
Readers can scroll left to read earlier columns - meaning your article or sponsor message stays forever.
Writers attract readers and readers attract sponsors
It is the classic chicken and egg problem, so writers should be realistic and understand that it takes time to build an audience. This is similar to YouTube where creators need a thousand followers and hours of view time before qualifying for revenue.
No such rule exists at Hold The News, if we have paying sponsors, then 60% of the revenue is automatically paid to writers as soon as a column freezes and rolls over to a new day.
The system is transparent and fair to both sponsors and writers.
Readers are the ultimate beneficiaries ....
Who are the Readers
As a brand new publication we can not say with certainly who the readers will be, it will ultimately depend on the content presented by writers, but one can imagine a sophisticated and relatively affluent audience of local commuters and people with spare time to read something interesting.
As time passes we will get a better idea of the demographic.
Privacy
Hold The News respects the privacy of readers but expect writers and sponsors to be transparent about who they are and what they represent, this instills confidence in the reader and holds the writer responsible for what they write. Of course we invite writers to express their opinion and that's fine as long as it is clearly stated.
Our site does not collect any user information except what's absolutely necessary to make the site work.
Simply by reading this article you have helped make Hold The News a reality.
Just do it!
Readers - Create a bookmark and come back tomorrow
Writers - Register and give it a go - it's fun!
Sponsors - Be one of the first - there is no fixed price you simply compete for position.
Steven Sesselmann
Site Editor
What you will immediately notice is that daily content is arranged in a single column - whatever appears in todays column (articles and ads) freezes at midnight and becomes yesterdays immutable column.
Readers can scroll left to read earlier columns - meaning your article or sponsor message stays forever.
Writers attract readers and readers attract sponsors
It is the classic chicken and egg problem, so writers should be realistic and understand that it takes time to build an audience. This is similar to YouTube where creators need a thousand followers and hours of view time before qualifying for revenue.
No such rule exists at Hold The News, if we have paying sponsors, then 60% of the revenue is automatically paid to writers as soon as a column freezes and rolls over to a new day.
The system is transparent and fair to both sponsors and writers.
Readers are the ultimate beneficiaries ....
Who are the Readers
As a brand new publication we can not say with certainly who the readers will be, it will ultimately depend on the content presented by writers, but one can imagine a sophisticated and relatively affluent audience of local commuters and people with spare time to read something interesting.
As time passes we will get a better idea of the demographic.
Privacy
Hold The News respects the privacy of readers but expect writers and sponsors to be transparent about who they are and what they represent, this instills confidence in the reader and holds the writer responsible for what they write. Of course we invite writers to express their opinion and that's fine as long as it is clearly stated.
Our site does not collect any user information except what's absolutely necessary to make the site work.
Simply by reading this article you have helped make Hold The News a reality.
Just do it!
Readers - Create a bookmark and come back tomorrow
Writers - Register and give it a go - it's fun!
Sponsors - Be one of the first - there is no fixed price you simply compete for position.
Steven Sesselmann
Site Editor
