US: Two dailies and three weeklies to merge
Posted by Katherine Thompson on August 4, 2008 at 1:24 PM
Lee Enterprises is combining two Idaho dailies, The Times-News (Twin Falls) and the South Idaho Press (Burley), plus three weeklies into one daily: The Times-News. It will be launched on 18 August.
Brad Hurd, Times-News Publisher, announced that the headcount will be reduced by 14, and that the combined paper and website will employ 109 people.
M. Hurd has also declared that they are intending "to devote all of their resources into a single, stronger and more regional newspaper, opposed to spreading them out among a variety of papers".
The South Idaho Press has a circulation of just under 4.000 and The Times-News about 20.500, and the weeklies less than 600 subscribers.
Previously, in April, Lee sold the Wood River Journal (Hailey, Idaho) and closed two small weeklies.
Source: Editor & Publisher
Brad Hurd, Times-News Publisher, announced that the headcount will be reduced by 14, and that the combined paper and website will employ 109 people.
M. Hurd has also declared that they are intending "to devote all of their resources into a single, stronger and more regional newspaper, opposed to spreading them out among a variety of papers".
The South Idaho Press has a circulation of just under 4.000 and The Times-News about 20.500, and the weeklies less than 600 subscribers.
Previously, in April, Lee sold the Wood River Journal (Hailey, Idaho) and closed two small weeklies.
Source: Editor & Publisher
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