Ventura County Star
By Gannett
Description
From critically acclaimed storytelling to powerful photography to engaging videos — the Ventura County Star app delivers the local news that matters most to your community. APP FEATURES: • Access all of our in-depth journalism, including things to do around town, sports coverage from high school to the pros, and much more. • Enjoy a streamlined, fast-loading experience that makes it easy to view the stories, photos, and videos that matter to you. • Get breaking news, sports scores, and weather alerts with real-time notifications tailored to your interests. • Customize your experience by saving your favorite stories, adjusting text size, using night mode, or reading offline. • eNewspaper: Just like our print edition but accessible on your mobile devices. And access to USA TODAY and 200+ local eNewspapers. MORE INFORMATION: • Privacy Policy: https://cm.vcstar.com/privacy/ • Terms of Service: https://cm.vcstar.com/terms/ • Questions or Comments: feedback@usatoday.com • Subscriptions are charged to your account at confirmation of purchase and automatically renew each month or year, unless turned off in your account settings at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage your subscriptions and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription, where applicable. See "Subscription Support" in the app's Settings for more details and customer service contact information.
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Reviews
Local news?
The LA news apps cover more relevant news in Ventura County. The news here are mostly high school sports updates.
Quality of reporting has fallen
The quality of reporting has declined over time. Pretty much every article is a fluff piece as in there isn’t any articles of the issues that plague Ventura county. Also, they have removed the options of leaving comments there by silencing any un consenting views.
Why?!?
I pay for a subscription to the newspaper, but every time I open the app, I get ads to buy a subscription. Also, I find I’m not allowed to read some articles, I get an error saying the article is only available to subscribers. I close the app, re-open and sometimes I get the article, but still sometimes not. What am I paying for if I can even read the news, who has time to play with signing in and out to read an article?!?
Subscribe?
Don't subscribe. I did months ago and still asks for me to subscribe and login... I've "only got 2 more articles" etc.etc Also 2 apps same Vc star? Y? Very confusing as 1 app knows my login, other makes it harder to sign in and says I haven't paid.!
Like the news, but not the Ads
I appreciate the local news stories, but I was disappointed when a paid subscription does not remove the ads. The choice of advertisements is especially annoying, reminds me of internet clickbait.
VC Star
Lousy on a good day…. Rather than provide news, content is mostly prep sports and Opinion submissions. Staying logged in can be a royal pain, as well.
Total Fraud
The Ventura County Star fraudulently renewed my subscription without consent or authorization. My promotional subscription expired in March 2022 and I made sure auto subscription was off. Then, in December 2022, they charged my iTunes account 9.99 without my consent or desire to subscribe. I’ve reached out to them numerous times with regard and they are totally ignoring my requests for cancellation and refund. Such a total fraud! I’m contacting the BBB with this matter as I am not going to let this go as they may hope.
Useful
Useful
Great Local, National and World News Source
The app is so easy to use. I love that you can click on specific articles and forward them to someone else who might be interested. Even the comic strips! Always on my phone by around 4am, so can access today’s paper as soon as I wake up. Highly recommend.
Local News coverage is a palling.
My university newspaper was infinitely better than the Star. you need to lower your advertising rates so that you can steal the revenue from the throwaways.You will make a profit… also, All of your reporters need to read the AP stylebook
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