‘We just did not have the revenue’: One small-town paper’s tough decision about the future
After nearly 170 years, Wisconsin’s River Falls Journal is no more. Its publisher announced last week that the Journal is merging with papers in New Richmond and Hudson to create a new regional publication, the Star-Observer. It’s the latest sign that small-town papers are struggling to survive.
Around a year ago, the publishers of the Raymond-Prinsburg News in Minnesota closed that paper. News about Raymond and Prinsburg, which lie some two hours west of the Twin Cities, is now included in another paper owned by the same family: the Clara City Herald.
MPR News host Cathy Wurzer spoke with Ted Almen, who publishes the Clara City Herald with his wife, Kari Jo.
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