According to officials at one GateHouse newspaper, the Moberly Monitor-Index, this is the best news its customers could ever receive:
The Moberly Monitor-Index will continue publishing a newspaper Monday through Friday, informing our readers about local news happenings within and around the Randolph County area said MMI Publisher Bob Cunningham. “The Hannibal printing facility will broaden and also have a better reproduction of color capabilities for our newspaper,” said Cunningham. “The Monitor-Index is not closing. There will also be some other content changes made that we believe will enhance the value of our daily newspaper to our readers.”So Moberly readers will now receive their afternoon newspapers at night with stale news and this is a good thing? I suppose I shouldn't be so skeptical since Cunningham explains why the reader will benefit.
In lieu of this production change, newsroom and advertising deadlines for content to publish in the daily newspaper has had to make changes to accommodate printing schedules at the Hannibal facility. Instead of a late morning deadline for news content, for example, deadlines are now more than 2 hours sooner than normal.
Another difference will be newspaper deliveries. Because the newspaper will be routed here by delivery truck from Hannibal, subscribers should expect up to a 2-hour delay of receiving their newspaper than what they have been accustomed to receiving the newspaper. Efforts are going to be made to have newspapers delivered by 6:30 p.m.
There will be more color photos publishing on Monday and Fridays, including sports. Gradually, there will be additional reader enhancements made to both the appearance and local content of newspaper as well.
More color photos and reader enhancements. With that kind of innovative thinking no wonder newspapers are thriving.
(GateHouse Media owns The Carthage Press, Neosho Daily News, Pittsburg Morning Sun, and more than 300 newspapers in the United States.)
5 comments:
RANDY,
IS PETE NEWMAN OUT OF PRISON? HE DOESN:T SHOW UP ON THE MO DEPT OF CORRECTIONS OFFENDER SEARCH INFO?
Gloria Fletcher is the most innovative thinker ever!
When all else fails, go after them leakers with Depends.
As a former GH employee (management) it's no surprise. It will also not come as a surprise that they may be paying Google to hide searched information about their financial condition. Sounds crazy but I've heard this many times in the last few months and to check it out I searched on search engines that are supposedly not filtered and came up with many posts that were not listed by Google including this one about them suspending printing of 49 newspapers until the first of next year - http://acgmedia.blogspot.com/search/label/Gatehouse%20Media
Amazing.s
To the writer of this story... did it ever cross your mind that Cunningham was trying to reassure the advertisers and subscribers. Trust me when gatehouse took their press I'm sure this man felt as though they took his heart out. Do your research before you slam the small publications gatehouse has horrendously destroyed. Pretty sure this publisher has been at the monitor index for over 50 Years. If anything he was being a leader for his staff who all cried the last day the presses bell rang and it printed the last edition Moberly location would ever print. I'm pretty sure no publisher that isn't a brown nosing idiot has no agreement with anything gatehouse does. If they let the shops run as independents their profit would triple. Most of these publications are ran by a staff of 3 or 4 people per important department. Gatehouse does not care about these papers, their history, and the loyalty the communities had in theses small papers. These papers have been around for hundreds of years. So next time you quote someone remember they don't have the freedom of speech. Nor the freedom of the press anymore.
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