ALL college and university students now have free access to heraldscotland.com thanks to a new partnership between The Herald and global technology consultancy firm CGI.
The initiative means any student - or campus staff member - who logs on to heraldscotland.com while connected to their campus Wifi can read its content absolutely free of charge.
“CGI is very pleased to continue supporting free access to The Herald online for higher education students and employees,” said Lindsay McGranaghan, CGI Vice President for Scotland.
“In the digital world we live in, access to the latest news and information is hugely important and we hope those that have recently moved in to higher education will benefit in the way their peers already are.”
Donald Martin, Editor-in-Chief of The Herald, said the 239-year-old newspaper and heraldscotland.com website are a place of learning in themselves too.
He said: “In this world of mis-information are we assessing the evidence and forming an opinion based on agreed facts and an understanding formed through unbiased scrutiny? Or do we simply exist within an echo chamber and hold a view based on what we want to hear?
“These vital questions are at the heart of this fantastic initiative granting free access to higher education students,” Mr Martin added.
Kate Forbes MSP, Minister for Public Finance & Digital Economy, said: “Access to information, knowledge, fact and truth is more pressing than ever before,” she said. “The Herald understands that easy access is critical.”
Herald Scotland free access is available now to all students and employees across every College and University in Scotland.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
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