State papers in danger
Bristol, Conn., may be home to the international headquarters of ESPN, but it may soon be forced to forego its only daily newspaper.
In a concession to the increasing unprofitability of small newspapers, the Journal Register Co., the parent company that owns several Connecticut papers, including the New Haven Register, announced Monday that if The Herald of New Britain and the Bristol Press do not find buyers soon, they will be shut down by Jan. 12. As Internet media expands and advertising profits fall, the closures are the latest casualties of a “terrible time” in the newspaper...
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3:15p.m. on November 14, 2008
What Marc Levy fails to tell you is that under his year-and-a-half leadership, the Herald has lost 20% of its circulation. Readers equal advertising.
To set the record straight, which Press employees seem to be reluctant to do, Bristol will not be without a community paper. The weekly, the Bristol Observer owned by the Republican-American out of Waterbury, still is in the community.