N&R editor John Robinson has some thoughts on the Reidsville Review/Eden Daily News announcement (by the way, kudos to my friend Jeff Sykes for providing the skinny on this one):I'm saddened by the announcement that the Reidsville Review and Eden Daily News are cutting back to two days a week.
While I applaud the all-local format, I know that many of their readers will be upset by the papers' going from five-day-a-week delivery to two. It's a loss of a valued habit.
Supposedly, most community papers aren't being hit by the advertising and circulation declines faced by papers in larger markets. But unemployment is at 10 percent in Rockingham County, higher than the state average. And the owner of the three Rockingham-based papers, Media General, is struggling with large debt so this may not be a problem entirely of the papers' making.
I have always thought that three community newspapers in Rockingham County is too many, even though they exchange content. When Media General bought the papers in the 90s, we expected the corporation to merge them into one. In retrospect, I don't know that that would have made any difference in this media/financil environment, though.
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JR...spell-check.
E.C. :)
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