Northern Wyoming News, a weekly newspaper coming in 2019

 

December 8, 2018



WORLAND — The Northern Wyoming Daily News has seen plenty of changes in the past 79 years and in year 80 another big change is coming. The Northern Wyoming Daily News will become the Northern Wyoming News, dropping daily from its name as it becomes a weekly newspaper.

The Northern Wyoming Daily News began as The Worland Grit in 1906 and the name change came in 1939. Starting Feb. 1, 2019, the name and the frequency of the paper will change with publication on Thursday.

Robb Hicks of Grand Teton News, the company that owns the Northern Wyoming Daily News said that the decision to change from daily to weekly is “not one we took lightly. We strongly believe that the future of newspapering will be with community newspapers. I think Worland should have a great weekly newspaper that is able to cover and serve the community.”

Hicks is publisher of the award-winning weekly the Buffalo Bulletin. He owns the NWDN with Gary Stevenson. They also own weekly papers in Newcastle, Pine Bluffs and Saratoga that have won hundreds of state and national awards for general excellence, editorial excellence, advertising excellence as well as awards for their local news coverage. “We feel Worland deserves the same,” Hicks said.

“We want to have a truly local paper in Worland, one that celebrates life in Washakie County” said Hicks.  “But we cannot do this and produce a paper five days a week. For years the paper has relied on the Associated Press to fill the paper. But that news is old and oftentimes contains liberal bias that folks in Wyoming have already read or just don’t want to read.”

“We have a great staff at the paper, and we know that if they are not laboriously producing a paper five times a week, they will have more time to write better local news about local people and events. We can both broaden and deepen our news coverage. Additionally, advertisers will be able to buy more effective larger ads that have a longer shelf life. Ads in a daily paper only get seen in a single edition. The next day, another paper comes out. With a weekly, ads work all week long for our local businesses.”

Readers will notice the change in frequency, but the staff at the Northern Wyoming Daily News, soon to be Northern Wyoming News, will continue to cover the same local news and area news and chronicling the events and people of Washakie County and the surrounding area.

Individual newspaper prices will increase to $1, which is consistent with many weekly newspapers in the area. Subscription prices will drop from the current daily rate. Current subscribers will have their subscriptions expirations dates extended accordingly.

Editor Karla Pomeroy said, “We know our readers will have a lot of questions and we will work to address those questions as best we can as we move forward with this change. We will continue to provide more information as we get closer to the change over from a daily to a weekly.”

She added, “I have worked on a weekly newspaper for most of my career and while it will be a big change I believe it can be an exciting change for our staff and our readers. I ask our readers to give us a chance and check out the product that should be filled with more local news and more in-depth news than we’ve been able to provide as a daily.”

 
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