And then more doom.
More bad news comes to newspaper readers. Eagle News, the media conglomerate in Syracuse, which brings news to 15 towns, has shut down many of their papers.
Starting April 1, many local papers are closing their doors and making way for one giant paper. Instead of the Hamilton & Morrisville Tribune, the Oneida Press, the Canastota Bee-Journal and the Chittenango-Bridgeport Times, there will be the Madison County Eagle. Sounds so exciting.
You see, I write for these papers when I have time at home. I’ve worked on-and-off with the editor of the C-B Times. I helped out with design for the CB-J. I had a subscription to the Oneida Press. I was born in Hamilton (figured I needed a relation to that paper, too.) These papers are definitely part of the reason I am in journalism, and helped me to know what I do. Now, instead, there will be one paper replacing all of the others. This one paper is going to have a page for each town.
Satellite offices have been closed. Papers have been condensed. Maybe this explains why I still haven’t been compensated for my freelance work in the past six months.
