For the primary time within the paper’s historical past, The Buffalo Information didn’t publish a print challenge this Fourth of July — and it seemingly received’t be the final time, both.
The Buffalo Information will now not be publishing print points on main holidays, the paper’s company proprietor, Lee Enterprises, introduced in an electronic mail to subscribers.
Lee Enterprises mentioned in that electronic mail that it made the change to “enable our staff to benefit from the vacation with associates and households.”
However the Buffalo Newspaper Guild, the union that represents the paper’s journalists, mentioned in a tweet that the transfer was merely a value slicing measure.
“Our mum or dad firm has determined to cease printing on main holidays to avoid wasting $$$ on printing and supply prices, easy,” the guild mentioned. “[Lee Enterprises] shouldn’t peddle fiction to our readers and subscribers.”
The Buffalo Information is not going to publish a print version on New 12 months’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas, in response to the paper’s web site.
An e-edition of the paper was nonetheless launched this previous Independence Day.
