Flint Journal

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 10:57pm on Thursday, March 26th, 2009

The Flint Journal will no longer be a daily newspaper, switching to publishing 3 days a week:

On Monday March 23, 2009, Ron Fonger of The Flint Journal reported that the paper will publish 3 days a week:

"The Flint Journal will stop publishing a daily newspaper in June and instead print only Thursday, Friday and Sunday editions, employees were told today.

The production cuts were announced along with layoffs and reduced wages and benefits for those who remain. Publisher David C. Sharp said the changes were brought on by deep reductions in classified, real estate and automobile advertising.

Sharp would not discuss the finances of the privately held company that owns The Journal, the Newhouse Family's Advance Publications.

But he said The Journal has been losing money and would have been forced to close without the reductions.

Readers of the newspaper can expect more local news on days The Journal is published and "greater Web offerings throughout the week," Sharp said.

"I feel like there is a real opportunity about the future," he said. "The strategy we're putting in place will help us be around for a long, long time."

Newspaper employees started to get word of the massive changes in meetings this morning as changes were also being announced at other Advance newspapers.

The Journal will no longer be printed in Flint but in Bangor Township, where some production functions will be combined with The Saginaw News and The Bay City Times."