More Media News

• Seattle magazine is coming back with a special issue later this summer, in concert with affiliated publication Seattle Business magazine, Seattle magazine announced. Seattle magazine had paused publication due to COVID-19.

• Beginning Aug. 24, the Casper Star-Tribune (Wyoming) will cease printing papers on Monday and Tuesday, the paper announced. Lee Enterprises owns the paper.

• The Journal Gazette/Times-Courier (Mattoon, Illinois) will go to a five-day (Tuesday to Saturday) print schedule beginning Aug. 17, the paper announced. Digital-only subscriptions have risen by 93% over prior year, the paper has said. Lee Enterprises owns the paper. 

 • Birmingham magazine (Alabama) is stopping its print production, the Birmingham Business Journal reported. The coronavirus pandemic is behind the move, the journal reported. Advance owns the magazine as part of Alabama Media Group, which also has AL.com, the Birmingham News, the Huntsville Times, the Press-Register in Mobile and other publications.

• Travel and tourism publishing operation HCP Media, a subsidiary of the Miami Herald Media Company, will be shuttered at the end of this month, the Miami Herald reported.

• The Metropolis Planet (Illinois) is closing its building on Fifth St. in Metropolis. The paper will continue to operate, it says.

• The Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, Massachusetts) will stop print operations. The paper says it’s stopping one of only two flexographic newspaper presses still in the U.S.