Winston-Salem Journal

Name: Winston-Salem Journal
Rating: 4.4 (252 reviews)
Author: BH Media Group

By: BH Media Group

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Features & Capabilities

The Winston-Salem Journal Chrome extension delivers local and regional news, sports, opinions, obituaries, entertainment, and politics from the Winston-Salem area and beyond. Read, listen, and watch exclusive commentary, photos, videos, and podcasts.

Free to download, subscribers enjoy unlimited access with News+. Key features include topic personalization, alerts, gesture-based navigation, reading in the News Feed or E-edition, breaking news banners, author follow, bookmarks, audio playback, adjustable text size, and local weather updates.

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By:

BH Media Group

Rating:

4.40

(252)

Version:

9.21 Last updated: 2026-05-14

Version code:

885587079

Creation date:

2010-11-05

Compatible devices:

Size:

63.24MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-04

Compare stats and ranking:

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# 106,056 ▼ 4

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Developed by:

BH Media Group

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/winston-salem-journal/id401355582

Website:

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User Reviews

The Winston-Salem Journal app delivers strong local coverage with an easy-to-read, organized design and convenient mobile access, plus timely local news. However, users frequently complain about paywalls after limited free reads, intrusive ads, lack of iPad landscape orientation, and stability issues (bugs, freezes, and slow performance) that hamper usability.

Pros

Easy to read and find stories with a well-organized layout.
Up-to-date, breaking local news and local sports.
Strong local coverage with breadth across local, regional, and national topics.
Very convenient for reading on mobile and while traveling.
Simple app design with hyperlocal investigative journalism.

Cons

Paywall: after a set number of free articles, a monthly subscription is required.
Intrusive ads disrupt reading and sometimes look like obituaries.
No landscape mode on iPad; reading in landscape is not supported.
Frequent bugs and instability: freezing, erratic navigation, and slow responses.
Overall aging/antiquated feel and slow performance.

Recent reviews

Nice simple app, with hyperlocal investigative journalism.

by Ja*****, 2025-08-11

Though the settings provide for font size adjustments, it only adjusts the heading text and not the body. This should be resolved to make the articles easily readable by customers with less than perfect eyesight.

by sh*****, 2023-03-30

I have an iPad Pro with S/W version 15.2.1. The ability to move from page to page is totally annoying as I cannot go from page to page without it jumping back to the previous page. It is extremely erratic. It was a continuing problem well before V15. I view on my Pro in the horizontal mode.