Note from loyal reader Susan:
Today’s Citizen-Times featured a new masthead for Pisgah Mountain News titled “Mountain News”. It looks like half of the content is focused on south Asheville and the other half of the content is Haywood County News. Would the CT like to share the details on the merged product? Another cost savings effort? As usual the CT mentions nothing about the changes.
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Mountain News was launched to provide local businesses with an affordable way to reach Asheville Citizen-Times subscriber households in the suburbs. Its content is not meant to "rival" that of a daily newspaper.
Even though the Asheville Citizen Times is making a profit it still needs to make more to look good on Wall Street.
yes. the citizen-times is profitable.
Is a daily newspaper economically viable in Asheville?
Ok, so I picked up a copy of "Mountain News". What a waste of my time. There is hardly any advertising and the quality off printing bites. Is is so thin I could practically see through it.
What’s with the Haywood/South Asheville content. Aren’t they a little far apart.
It’s a weak attempt to compete with the Biltmore Beacon’s parent company the Mountaineer.
Good try Hammer but you missed the boat again. And I will tell you once if I will tell you managers again, Stop Drinking the Gannett Kool-Aid.
Did you also know that take5 no longer does the additional ‘street’ anymore? I didn’t know this until I ran into a former C-Ter who informed me. I only care since ‘street’ was my baby for several months …
I do know that for awhile, the former PMN editor was trying to phase out the whole ‘Pisgah’ thing since south AVL is nowhere near Pisgah Mountain. I had to redo that mast to make ‘Pisgah’ teeny teeny. Guess they finally opted to get rid of it.
Speaking of PMN, have you heard from Julie Ball? I loved her; she was always great to work with.