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Gannett acquires York Daily Record
Gannett acquires York Daily Record
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Gannett Co., the McLean, Virginia-based publisher of USA TODAY and 81 community newspapers, has acquired the York Daily Record/Sunday News and its website, ydr.com, Gannett said Monday.
The Daily Record, an award-winning[/url] media organization [url=]whose roots go back to the 1790s, is one of a cluster of newspapers in Pennsylvania, New Mexico and Texas that Gannett is buying from Digital First Media.The other Pennsylvania newspapers that are part of the deal are The (Hanover) Evening Sun, the Public Opinion in Chambersburg and the Lebanon Daily News.The York Daily Record/Sunday News is the largest of the four newspapers with a daily circulation of 30,730 and Sunday circulation of 60,032. The York Dispatch, which is in a joint operating agreement with the York Daily Record, is included in the acquisition, according to Daily Record Publisher Sara Glines.
The York Dispatch, which publishes Monday through Friday, has a circulation of 16,878. The two newsrooms merged production, circulation and advertising in the 1990 joint operating agreement, creating the York Newspaper Co. The two newsrooms will remain independent."This is an exciting opportunity for us," Glines said in speaking with the staff.Glines said readers can continue to expect the same high level of journalism they have come to know."One of the reasons we got purchased by Gannett is that we're doing a great job," Glines told staffers.She said in an interview that she expects to stay on as publisher and as president of the York Newspaper Co.
One content move Gannett could make would be running a version of USA TODAY in the Daily Record, said Rick Edmonds, media business analyst for the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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Gannett just purchased a piece of garbage!. When I moved to York Co. several years ago the YDR was a good, little hometown newspaper with several nationally known, syndicated columnists, good local reporting and editorials. It has been reduced to history, history ad nauseum, photos of babies and stupid pet photos, and the most incredibly racist, obnoxious, ignorant letters-to-the-editor written by uneducated, hicks you'll ever want to read anywhere. Yes, I just loooove receiving a newspaper rolled up tight like a cigar and then attempt to read it thru all the creases and rolls! I once called it the old Williamsport "Grit" but it isn't even that good anymore.
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All that and more, Flowergirl. We have a terrible time getting a paper delivered. Some days we'll get a Daily Record, some days a York Dispatch. Some days nothing at all.
Our paper person crashed into our paperbox and destroyed it. After several months and many phone calls to the paper it still hasn't been replaced. They just don't care. I wonder if the new owners will?
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I don't get the point of newspapers anymore. Everything in them is all free on the Internet. Why pay money to kill trees to get something that can be had for free?
The newspaper is a dying medium, and in some cases already dead. It's going the way of Blockbuster Video.
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The Man wrote:
I don't get the point of newspapers anymore. Everything in them is all free on the Internet. Why pay money to kill trees to get something that can be had for free?
No one has come up with an answer to that question. Hence the decline of newspapers.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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I don't get the point of newspapers anymore. Everything in them is all free on the Internet. Why pay money to kill trees to get something that can be had for free?
No one has come up with an answer to that question. Hence the decline of newspapers.
Sure they've come up with an answer for it, everything that's in a newspaper is on the newspaper's website. I guess there are enough old school folks around to keep the physical newspaper around a bit longer though.
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Re: Gannett acquires York Daily Record
Gannett just purchased a piece of garbage!. When I moved to York Co. several years ago the YDR was a good, little hometown newspaper with several nationally known, syndicated columnists, good local reporting and editorials. It has been reduced to history, history ad nauseum, photos of babies and stupid pet photos, and the most incredibly racist, obnoxious, ignorant letters-to-the-editor written by uneducated, hicks you'll ever want to read anywhere. Yes, I just loooove receiving a newspaper rolled up tight a a cigar and then attempt to read it thru all the creases and rolls! I once called it the old Williamsport "Grit" but it isn't even that good anymore..
Oh my god that was the greatest thing you've ever written flowergirl. Literally almost spit my water out while reading that.
Edit to add: Jason Plotkin has done two really good video pieces in the last couple of days for the YDR. Seen it on their facebook page.
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I don't get the point of newspapers anymore. Everything in them is all free on the Internet. Why pay money to kill trees to get something that can be had for free?
No one has come up with an answer to that question. Hence the decline of newspapers.
Sure they've come up with an answer for it, everything that's in a newspaper is on the newspaper's website. I guess there are enough old school folks around to keep the physical newspaper around a bit longer though.
Not much longer, though (at least in the printed form). Like you said, too many competing and free outlets for basically the same information.
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