Submit and Courier North Augusta/The Star is transferring to a month-to-month print schedule beginning Feb. 28. The newspaper will nonetheless be revealed every week on-line; solely the printed publication is affected by the change.
The change is supposed to deliver the North Augusta paper according to the Submit and Courier’s different enlargement markets that already are following a month-to-month print schedule. The North Augusta Star grew to become one in every of these enlargement markets in March 2022 when it was rebranded to Submit and Courier North Augusta.
Tandem with this transformation is a transfer to junk mail for distribution, a transfer that’s meant to achieve 14,700 North Augusta households.
Randy Mitchell, writer for the Aiken Customary and, till Jan. 1 of this yr, for the PCNA, stated the North Augusta paper wasn’t reaching lots of the folks it’s meant to serve.
“Actually, it does an injustice to the group,” he stated. “Good newspaper readers make good residents. They’re extra linked to the group, they vote extra. An excellent newspaper educates the group to be higher residents as nicely. It retains them knowledgeable.”
The 14,700 printed copies will probably be delivered at no cost, touchdown in mailboxes within the days following the final Wednesday of every month.
The weekly paper, nonetheless revealed on-line, will probably be free entry for six months.
Cassandra Singfield was named writer and gross sales director for Submit and Courier North Augusta.
With these modifications, North Augusta’s newspaper additionally now has its personal writer. Cassandra Singfield was named writer and gross sales director of the PCNA, efficient Jan. 1.
“We’re nonetheless going to seize these issues that should be on the market in circulation – nevertheless it’s going to be contemporary and new and extra,” she stated of the modifications. “I really feel just like the group desires it, and we wish to be certain that they’ve it.
“We hope that the North Augusta companies get behind the change and assist their paper.”
“Newspapers mainly write down the historical past of a group,” stated Randy Mitchell, writer for the Aiken Customary.
The Aiken Customary’s Mitchell emphasised that much less frequency on the printed copy doesn’t imply much less information – the information will nonetheless be revealed on-line because it’s occurring and additional distributed via social media platforms. “We’re extra linked and extra well timed than ever earlier than,” he stated.
“Good journalism isn’t useless. I imply, good journalism and an excellent newspaper – it’s the center and soul of the group,” Mitchell stated. “Newspapers file the historical past of a group […] We’re actually monitoring the entire historical past of an individual’s life.”