Morgan County News makes changes

Nearly two years ago, we restarted the Morgan County News printed newspaper. We were excited to try to save the newspaper that had been struggling the previous decade, with several owners. We understood the hurdles that the previous publishers had, rising cost of print, postage, and wages, with the decline in advertising and subscriptions. It seems to be the story of newspapers in general for the last few decades. Counties and towns throughout the United States have been losing their newspapers. Over 2,500 newspapers have closed over the last 20 years. 

In our first two years we have made some good advancements to make sure that this does not happen to Morgan County. Some of those advancements include:

• We have acquired over 400 subscribers and weekly readers. 

• We have printed a newspaper for the last two years.

• We launched a website for the newspaper. 

• We have opened an office in Morgan.

•We have built a team of reporters. 

We are excited that today we can announce the next phase in preserving the Morgan County News. 

Monthly Newspaper

Starting in August 2024 we will now be printing and mailing a monthly newspaper that will cover Morgan County School District Education and Sports, Local Events and activities, and City Council and County Commissioner meetings. This paper will be available to all Morgan County Residents. At first it will be free but each household will have to request that they want a copy. 

Those residents who are already subscribing to the weekly paper will not need to request the monthly newspaper or do anything new, they will automatically be enrolled to receive the new monthly newspaper. 

Weekly Newspaper

Over the last year one of our cost saving strategies was to combine our printing with one of our sister publications The Davis Journal. Starting next week this paper will look and feel a little different. The name will be changed to The City Journal.

Most of the paper will remain the same. The Morgan stories will be clearly marked and will be grouped together but will not be in a separate section. There will be a few less Morgan based stories but we hope that you will enjoy them in your monthly Morgan County Newspaper that will also be delivered to your house. 

Newspaper Website

All Morgan County news will still be published on our website at TheMorganNews.com.

We understand that this will be an adjustment but we believe that these changes will make the paper more stable and feasible. We ask all of our subscribers to give it a few weeks and then let us know how we can improve. 

If you have any other questions or suggestions please feel free to email me at [email protected]. λ