The Bellingham Herald News Reviews

I love being able to keep up on the latest in our community. The Herald is a foundational institution in Bellingham and it is great to see them continue to strive for high quality local journalism.

Get rid of the pay wall! The Herald has questionable journalistic integrity as-is, there is no way a significant number of people are going to start paying $13/month for a subscription. Competing area news outlets are still free. Revamp your advertising strategy and keep the news available to the whole population, not just people that can afford $150/year for the local paper.

TheBellinghamHeraldNews is super easy to use, nothing complicated about it and have had no issues so far.

I loved the previous app! This new version freezes up constantly & I don’t like the layout at all. The previous version was much easier to go from story to story in the list on the left. Definitely NOT an improvement at all!!!

I know national news is important, but there are plenty of other places where someone can get that. BH I feels needs to have more local news on a daily basis.

I miss reading the "real" newspaper. The critical difference is the old print paper perhaps 50 articles a day, weather, obituaries, births, local news. The new Herald has perhaps 1 local, new, article a day.

Once I am logged in TheBellinghamHeraldNews frequently logs me off when I switch articles. Annoying.

Like they want you to search through old archives and resent issues to find an article from last week. TheBellinghamHeraldNews wastes your time and raises your blood pressure.

My subscription does not end until June. I keep getting msg saying my free time is up. I have reported this before and it stops for a short time only. It's a pain Trying to report this is even a bigger pain and very time consuming

It takes forever to load from alert notifications, and trying to share an article ends up sharing an image. I’m considering unsubscribing.

This latest is version is impossible to use. It doesn’t work like an e-edition of the newspaper. More ads. Once you pinch open an article you can’t get back to the full page.

No search functionality apparent. Poor design if you have to search for “search”.

The new app is not as user friendly as the old app was, I see no real improvement and would rather have the old one back.

I now like TheBellinghamHeraldNews . I finally found what I was looking for but only by luck. I wanted to read the actual paper and found your other APP the bellingham herald that goes direct to the e-print edition.

Disregard,
I'm on a tablet. The view pane can't be resized. The settings do not work. Option to read the actual paper is gone. Looks like your trying to compete mor with larger news outlets which is saturated. Hope you get this more local.

This redesigned app is terrible. There’s also less current articles. I’m going to unsubscribe to this useless “news” app.

Suddenly I can no longer read the daily BH on my iPad. It opens but only as a narrow side bar. Irritating.

For some reason I try to open an article and it’s prompting me to pay for a subscription. It was free yesterday

Seems like my view of the paper is different every time I log on.

Poor local coverage.

Looks like the new update borked TheBellinghamHeraldNews ! I cannot even get it to fully download. 😾

TheBellinghamHeraldNews does not work as well as old app. In fact can I navigate thru it & no help.

The last few weeks my router has detected and blocked 3 phishing and malware from the Bellingham herald. It does seem to be mostly from TheBellinghamHeraldNews (as that is what I use most) I am not sure if this is a issue the BH has detected but it is concerning. I would hope most everyone removes TheBellinghamHeraldNews asap or BH fixes this.

If you’re saying you’ve lifted the paywall but can’t deliver on that promise then you should remove your editor's note saying so.

What happened? Now you have to pay for TheBellinghamHeraldNews content... no warning?

Works well and is fairly user friendly.