Hua Hin Magazines

[jamesg]

what are the most popular / highest circulation newspapers or magazines in hua hin please? I'm only interested in local ones.

[Lev]

There are no real newspapers, only Hua Hin Sarn, a Thai language publication.

There are a number of nondescript glossy ad mags that come and go, the two long standing ones are The Observer (though we are unsure if this is still printed) and Hua Hin Today, a property developer sponsored 'good news' paper.

This forum has a higher daily readership/'circulation' than all of them combined.

[hhfarang]

The only things in either category published locally are advertising rags mostly used to sell real estate.

[jamesg]

Thanks, I've seen a few of the glossy mags but I can't really remember which was which, they all seem to be broadly similar. I used to write about sport for the Phuket Gazette when I was living in Phuket and I'd be interested in doing something similar in Hua Hin but only if it's a well(ish) respected publication that people are actually gonna read.

Doesn't sound like such a thing exists.

[Lev]

Why not write on this forum, we get 3,700 readers per day so you wont be short of an audience? It certainly gets more readers than the tourist ad mags and it would be nice to have some well written content about the local area.

Sadly Hua Hin is lacking in print anything that falls into the 'well respected' category.

[Clark Ling]

i enjoy reading the observer myself,i would recommend that one

[caller]

i enjoy reading the observer myself,i would recommend that one

Got a (working) link?

[jamesg]

I met the owner of the observer a few nights ago, he says he is planning to relaunch it soon

[Frank La Rue]

From what you post and considering the fact that you post hte question on an english speaking forum I assume wou want to publish in English.
From that perspective I agree with previous poste -why not publish here? I have seen other who have had their own Blog (ex Thai musings), which chose to integrate with Thai Visa (I think it was)

You could ask the Adim for your own section and puvlish there

[margaretcarnes]

I met the owner of the observer a few nights ago, he says he is planning to relaunch it soon

So you will know why there has been a glitch in publishing the Observer for over a year. Good to hear it could be up and running again soon. I used to write a regular column for it but since the glitch have been doing a weekly column for AWOL - the other English language HH paper.
The problem faced by any publication in HuaHin is that Editors have to respect very strict limitations on what can be written in them, because of the local Royal connections. I lived in Pattaya years ago and you will never find anything like the Pattaya Mail used to publish in HH. In addition to which there is less going on in HH that is newsworthy - which is seen as a good thing. Even when things do go wrong it tends to be hushed up, and as mentioned earlier at times like that this forum is the place to find out.
All that said, for anyone writing non controversial stuff it would be worth approaching any of the local rags.