Two GateHouse papers in Arkansas
“Our hope
is still that the closure is avoided, and that the Daily Leader continues to
serve this community under new ownership,” said Matt Guthrie, GateHouse
regional vice president. Guthrie expressed similar hopes for the Helena-West
Helena paper.
GateHouse
is also making changes at the Pine Bluff Commercial, according to the paper. The paper plans to close its printing
press this month.
“Changes
are being made with our printing press, and printing will be outsourced, but we
will continue to print and deliver papers five days a week,” Jennifer Allen,
group publisher for GateHouse, said in a brief Commercial story. The story
didn’t say where the printing would go.
Some seven
people will lose jobs with the shuttering of the two papers, and around seven
will see effects with the closing of the printing press, said Allen, according
to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. The Pine
Bluff
In August,
GateHouse announced its $1.4 billion acquisition of Gannett, which has papers
in in Mountain Home and Fort Smith
In other
GateHouse news, the company will pay up to $425,000 to settle a lawsuit with
its carriers, who claim they were misclassified as independent contractors,
MassLive reported.
GateHouse
won’t need to change its practices as part of the settlement.
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