THE Herald is Scotland’s only quality broadsheet and we know how important our subscribers are to our ability to provide indepth, impartial coverage of Scottish affairs. That’s why we’re adding a new benefit to our subscription packages.
Premium Plus digital subscribers will now have unlimited access to our new advert-free app and website, while Premium and non-subscribers have limited access within the app.
Through the app, subscribers will have access to more than 50+ puzzles every week, keeping your brain in gear.
You’ll have the ability to save content for later reading at your leisure, including digital editions of the paper and articles. Our content is downloadable.
Subscribers can also access previous articles, supplements and editions – and flip through a digital edition of the latest paper, accessing it before anyone else.
To enjoy your ad-free experience, check out our app at one of these links:
Apple: The Herald on the App Store (apple.com)
Android: The Herald – Apps on Google Play
Herald Editor Donald Martin said: “Our role is to keep our readers informed with first-rate reporting and analysis on affairs at home and abroad. We hope subscribers will enjoy the unlimited access they have to this app – and thank you for supporting our quality journalism.”
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
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here