The National is excited to announce we have ALREADY hit our first subscription target for our 10,000 Steps To Independence campaign.
This means we will be launching a series of short monthly supplements aimed not at our readers, but at No voters – with facts and myth-busting around the case for independence. We will reveal more details about how this will work in the coming days, and will aim to launch next month.
Huge thanks to everybody who has signed up to support us so far. As of today, we have 6049 subscribers – and we’re well on our way to our next target of 7000.
The next investment we make could be a gamechanger – a full-time video journalist producing viral videos about politics which are easily shareable and can help take the case for independence to places the newspaper can’t reach.
Back us today at www.thenational.scot/subscribe and find out more about our campaign at www.thenational.scot/10000steps!
Why are you making commenting on The National only available to subscribers?
We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
Unfortunately, though, these important debates are being spoiled by a vocal minority of trolls who aren’t really interested in the issues, try to derail the conversations, register under fake names, and post vile abuse.
So that’s why we’ve decided to make the ability to comment only available to our paying subscribers. That way, all the trolls who post abuse on our website will have to pay if they want to join the debate – and risk a permanent ban from the account that they subscribe with.
The conversation will go back to what it should be about – people who care passionately about the issues, but disagree constructively on what we should do about them. Let’s get that debate started!
Callum Baird, Editor of The National
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