# Winston-Salem Journal

> News

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id401355582](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id401355582)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id401355582`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** BH Media Group
- **Category:** News
- **Rating:** 4.40 / 5 (255 ratings)
- **Version:** 9.22.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-06
- **First published:** 2010-11-05
- **Size:** 100 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/winston-salem-journal/id401355582)
- **Website:** [https://www.journalnow.com/ads.txt](https://www.journalnow.com/ads.txt)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.omaha.com/site/terms.html/#privacy](https://www.omaha.com/site/terms.html/#privacy)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #97,171 — Overall

## Review summary

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.

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