Every so often, a headline shocks even us.
Recently, Dan Kennedy, a professor at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism, posted “Gannett goes on a massive spree of closing and merging weekly newspapers” on his blog, Media Nation. The post reported on Gannett’s recent closures of 19 of its weekly newspapers and merging of nine weeklies into four in eastern Massachusetts. Gannett, the largest U.S. newspaper chain, is the parent company of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and USA Today.
Kennedy went on to reference a tweet by Greg Reibman, president of the Charles River Regional Chamber and a former journalist at GateHouse Media, which merged with Gannett in 2019, that linked to another post titled, “Local newspapers aren’t dying. They’re dead.”
All due respect, sir, but we’d like to disagree.
