Times-News vs. Tribune
I'm a subscriber to the Erie Times-News (the paper version) and read the Meadville Tribune online, except for Thursdays when I buy it because of the Bravo! section. I've often wondered if I'm missing out on a lot of Cambridge-area news by not reading the Tribune regularly. Both papers seem to cover the major events in town (for example, they both had a few follow-up articles when beer bandit Casey Castile confessed to knocking off the Saegertown beer distributor in January and will soon be charged with two more robberies in Millcreek).
But it seems like the Tribune has more of the "community news" type of things day-to-day--like when the borough will be flushing hydrants and similar items. I've never been overly impressed with the Times' Crawford County Neighbors section on Fridays. But I'm just not sure it's worth paying $120+ a year for a Tribune subscription.
Neither the Times nor the Tribune, unfortunately, seems to regularly cover Cambridge Borough or Township meetings, but I guess we haven't seen that since the days of the Independent-Enterprise in Edinboro.
But it seems like the Tribune has more of the "community news" type of things day-to-day--like when the borough will be flushing hydrants and similar items. I've never been overly impressed with the Times' Crawford County Neighbors section on Fridays. But I'm just not sure it's worth paying $120+ a year for a Tribune subscription.
Neither the Times nor the Tribune, unfortunately, seems to regularly cover Cambridge Borough or Township meetings, but I guess we haven't seen that since the days of the Independent-Enterprise in Edinboro.
posted by admin@CambridgeSprings.net at 8:10 PM
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I used to report for the chain that the Independent-Enterprise was part of (our paper was in Millcreek). There's no substitute for small town weeklies (unless it's a website done by the small town weekly) and editors/presidents of larger newspapers think it's just as good to publish a supplement once a week. Not the same at all, especially not in terms of community. Weeklies thrive on community news from school events to municipal meetings. Those reporters (usually) have time to follow up on events from meetings, get quotes, etc. whereas reporters at dailies have to go go go. It's a different mindset and daily reporters have trouble getting into that groove, looking past "deadline" to "thoroughness."
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