HIP is online?
I recently bumped into Chris Richards of Band of Brothers and asked him what he thought of the article I’d written about the organisation he’s involved in (See Issue 141). It was good to hear he’d liked the article and that an event mentioned had been successful.
Being curious, I asked if he knew it was possible to get Hastings Independent online – and he didn’t. This got me thinking as I’ve had the same response from several other people.
Hastings Independent Press, as its name indicates, sees itself as primarily a print paper, and we’re proud of that. However, we obviously want to reach
as many people as possible – you can find us online at www.hastingsindependentpress.co.uk – as one of the main purposes of newspaper articles is to inform.
Going back to Band of Brothers a lot of Hastings’ residents need to reach out to people – whether they want to promote an event, product or service or whether they want to raise awareness of a problem or drum up support for a campaign or political issue. These days it’s difficult to grab attention because of the amount of information available.
Getting an article in HIP is one way to spread your message. But you can spread that message further by linking the online article to social media, whichever platform fits your demographic. HIP will do its best on Facebook, but there are plenty of others to choose from. (And don’t forget we also print old-fashioned letters, as well as providing free promotion in The HIP List).
So that’s one way of using HIP online. But there are plenty of others.
Finding where to get a print copy
Lots of people like to read a print copy but are not sure where to get one: go to the About HIP drop down menu and click on Where can I get a copy? The locations are all there – and we hope to expand them soon.
Can’t/Don’t want to find a print copy
Go online to find the latest copy of HIP neatly arranged in the following sections: News, Community, Features, Arts, Reviews, Literature and Wellbeing. If you’re feeling at a loose end, stop looking at cat memes and go to our comprehensive listings pages to find an event or class to suit you. There’s also a link to them on our Facebook page.
Prefer to read online as a newspaper?
Click on Read the latest issue now in the sidebar. You can read on mobile devices or full screen on a desktop by clicking the full screen button on both the browser and within the programme itself.
Locating previous articles
Use any key word in the search function (location varies according to medium) and you can find past articles. Maybe you were in the paper without even realising it!
There are any number of reasons why you might want to locate a previous article. Perhaps you are doing some local research and want to find out what has been written about the topic in HIP. Maybe you are reading a current article and want to find what else HIP has written about that topic.
Reading previous editions of HIP
If you’re lucky, you may be able to locate previous issues of HIP in original print form (unlikely). If not click on the sidebar Read the HIP back issues here. Issues 1 to 99 are available as pdf downloads. All subsequent issues are available as ‘flipbooks’ (as well as pdf downloads). If nothing else, you could get a feast of recipes from the Food and Drink section – often tailored to the local palate. Read Issue 1 and you can reminisce about the closure of Hastings Post Office – was it really six years ago?
We hope you have enjoyed reading this article. The future of our volunteer led, non-profit publication would be far more secure with the aid of a small donation. You can also support local journalism by becoming a friend of HIP. It only takes a minute and we would be very grateful.
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