The Hometown Newspaper has sold
@JamesHxstatic (29410)
Eugene, Oregon
January 28, 2018 4:58pm CST
As of March 1, the Eugene Register-Guard newspaper will be taken over by Gatehouse Media, who owns (I think) about a hundred or more publications nationwide.
Our local R-G was family owned for 91 years by the Baker family and is, overall, a really good local paper. I know that many people rarely read a newspaper anymore and it is most difficult to make one profitable. They are becoming extinct.
I have read one (including comics, but not sports) almost every day since I was about ten years old. The staff at the paper is holding their collective breath to see how many jobs will be cut. I will wait and see if the price goes up (again like last year) and the quality of local news holds up.
I wonder if newspapers elsewhere in the myLot world are selling and shrinking and disappearing? Even the LA Times sold last year.
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@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
29 Jan 18
True, this one is online too. I may change my subscription to online only, would cost a lot less.
@DesirousDreamer (34776)
• Peoria, Arizona
29 Jan 18
The newspaper world is not an easy one. It used to be almost every house on the street got a newspaper, now only my grandma gets it and that is because her fiance reads it when he comes over. We only get the newspaper when it is in the little bins at the gas station if something interesting is in it.
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@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
29 Jan 18
I find interesting things on almost every page, strangely.
@DesirousDreamer (34776)
• Peoria, Arizona
29 Jan 18
@JamesHxstatic We mostly do it for like if a band I really like is coming to town. Even had a band sign a page and they freaked out because they had no idea they were in the newspaper haha
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
29 Jan 18
those jerks just bought my brother's paper too-and teminated him and about 25 other employees.merry frickin christmas.
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
29 Jan 18
@hereandthere they were informed right around christmas..he got a small severance,but having to look for a new job at 53 sucks for him.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
29 Jan 18
@scarlet_woman it is. i hope he and the other employees find one soon.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
29 Jan 18
that's terrible. were they informed ahead of time? did they not even receive any compensation?
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@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
28 Jan 18
That is probably what will happen here, though we are the second biggest city in the state, so they might keep local news going I hope.
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
28 Jan 18
They sell around here for the coupons on Sunday.
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@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
28 Jan 18
Those I never look at, hardly ever anything we like.
