Warwick Post Newsletter Signup: Don’t Miss Out

WARWICK, RI — A glitch in Barton Gilman’s Warwick Schools audit pitch, the Council’s effort to secure school building reimbursement, and a looming school budget deficit – stories you missed this week without the Warwick Post newsletter.

Those stories weren’t shared on Facebook, so the folks who either check WarwickPost.com regularly or subscribe to the Warwick Post newsletter were the first to know about them. Even Google News isn’t as fast to pick up our stories.

You might’ve noticed Facebook’s recent spat with the entire country of Australia last month. Rather than pay for the news content it’s been using to generate engagement and audiences, and, through that, money, they removed all news content from their platform for a week while  negotiating.

If that happens here for some reason,  you’d probably miss something, unless you were signed up for the newsletter. Don’t rely on Facebook for your news. Email doesn’t answer to Facebook.

So, if you’re interested in keeping tabs on Warwick Post headlines, make sure you sign up for the Warwick Post Newsletter. If you want to read past the headlines, you can subscribe to WarwickPost.com for just $1.50 a month. Save yourself two months of payments by signing up as a yearly subscriber at $15, and we’ll throw in a free download of creepy tales by Rhode Island authors, Weird Rhody.

Subscribe? What kind of loser pays for the news?

People who want to make informed choices about their vote, and who wants to make educated demands of their public servants. So yeah, the jokes on those yokels.

Reporting, gathering and writing the news takes time and money, and relying on advertising alone isn’t a safe bet. Advertising doesn’t last during a national recession, like the one we’re living through now. When the economy didn’t have much activity during the pandemic, fewer businesses had the discretion to spend on advertising. Most small businesses didn’t have an advertising budget to begin with. Many businesses shut down.

Subscribers to WarwickPost.com kept people reporting stories. Informing you about the election. Where to vote.  Who was seeking your vote, and why. They helped us provide readers with life-and-death information during the pandemic, much of it free. Your neighbors who subscribe gave you that. For less than $20 for the year.

WarwickPost.com delivered that information thanks to the subscribers we’ve won over the last six years. But with a stronger subscriber base, we could have done a better job. There are always going to be more stories to write than we have time or resources, but $1.50 per month, $18 per year, from a few thousand extra subscribers would dramatically improve the service we provide readers.

Subscribers put more journalists to work. That helps people make more informed choices. It’ll improve the community for everyone.

Sign up today. There’s more to be done, and we’re ready to get to work for you.