20 dow many more to follow

There’s a tinge of sadness t today’s 20th anniversary of Hawke’s Bay Today. As you will see in the pap today and online, Margaret Goodwin, the lady who nam our paper, passed away on Saturday, just a few days be our anniversary. Our condolences to Margaret’s family — 20 yea Hawke’s Bay gave birth to a regional daily newspaper a Margaret named us. She wi always have a special place hearts of Hawke’s Bay Toda family. There was also some new history created this week. Twenty years ago, we kn about this thing, the interne we had no real strategy aro using it to spread the news. In 2004, as a rookie edito asked a retiring news execu his thoughts on a strategy o to deal with online news, an particular, the fact we were giving our news away for fr shrugged and said “that’s y problem”. For the next 15 years, New Zealand media companies h thrashed out the subject. This week, NZME — Hawk Bay Today’s parent compan revealed a partial paywall b on the “freemium” concept. is, some news is free and oth news, readers have to pay fo We value our journalism, we don’t take anyone who r it for granted, so our challen now is to continue, not just t work that started 20 years w Hawke’s Bay Today, but the that started more than 150 y ago, when time-honoured journalistic practices began region. It is a privilege we should take for granted, because w our readers, we have nothin Whether it is in print, on t radio, or online, we thank yo consuming Hawke’s Bay new and we look forward to the n 20 years, the 20 after that, a after that . . .