Andover American Launches

Gatehouse Media has announced it will launch a new weekly publication the Andover American this week.  This free Thursday publication will cover Andover, Kansas and the surrounding area.

Gatehouse Media Temporarily Suspending Publication of 49 Papers

Gatehouse Media will be suspending publication of 49 of their vendors during the last week of December. These publications will resume publishing the first week in January. Per Gatehouse Media, the publications are:

Abington Mariner

Allston/Brighton Tab

Amesbury News

Ashland Tab

Beacon Villager

Bourne Courier

Bridgewater Independent

Cambridge Tab

Canton Journal

Cape Ann Beacon

Clinton Courier/Lancaster Times

Duxbury Reporter

Falmouth Bulletin

Framingham Tab

Georgetown Record

Halifax Plympton Reporter

Hansconian

Harwich Oracle

Holbrook Sun

Holliston Tab

Hopkinton Crier
Hudson Sun

Lincoln Journal

Littleton Independent

Marlboro Enterprise

Maynard Beacon Villager

Newburyport Current

North Andover Citizen

North Shore Sunday

Norton Mirror

Pembroke Mariner & Reporter

Randolph Herald

Reading Advocate

Rockland Standard

Salem Gazette

Sandwich Broadsider

Shrewsbury Chronicle

Stoneham Sun

Stoughton Journal

Tewksbury Advocate

The Bolton Common

The Harvard Post

The Lakeville Call

The Raynham Call

The Villager

Wakefield Observer

Westborough News

Wilmington Advertiser

Woburn Advocate

Please contact your Gatehouse Media representative for more details.

Galesburg's The Paper Changes Name & Enhances Product

Galesburg's The Paper, a Gatehouse Media publication, changed its name to the Knox County Neighbors in Mid August, 2010. According to Mark Ebner, Director of Advertising, Marketing and Promotions, the following changes also occurred with the KCN:

The flavor of the publication is still 100% local content of local interest. Traditionally, The Paper newsroom content was created allowing for a similar amount of "editorial news latitude" as our paid daily, The Register-Mail is newsroom edited now. We have instituted some exciting changes that enhance KCN editorial content and depth of readership.

Answering both advertiser and reader feed back, KCN now offers in every issue, re-occurring local community profiles and great photography. At the top of each page, we have bannered each page with titles for specific newsroom content on, "Know Your Neighbors" (front page profile), a reader submitted photos page, "What's Happening" (calender of local events and weekly featured event), "Voices" (local submitted content), "Schools", "Good Works", "Military and Veterans", "Seniors", "Youth Sports", of course about 3.5 pages of classifieds. and additional paid ad/editorial space as needed.

With only a couple of weekly issues out, we definitely hit a home run with our advertisers and readers! Realistically, The Paper customarily ran 12-16 pages as a rule, based on approximately a 50/50 ad to content ratio. KCN is running twice the size (24-28) pages, at the same ad to content ratio formula. Weekly preprints from our national, regional and local clients are strong, KCN is are grateful to have an excellent preprint base.

Distribution foot print is the exact same as The Paper was, approximately 21500 printed and delivered to every city and rural household in Knox County, select rack and business locations at many city and rural locations.

Distribution methods: KCN is uniquely distributed on Wednesdays of every week. With Register-Mail carriers and motor routes already delivering to R-M to subscribers, approximately 9000 copies of The Paper and now also 9000 copies of KCN are inserted into the R-M for carrier/motor delivery on Wednesday to R-M subscribers, city and rural. The remaining 13500 copies of KCN are distributed to (Register-Mail/KCN) carriers who deliver in the City of Galesburg and to 14 "out of Galesburg" incorporated villages and racks. KCN is simultaneously mailed to rural addresses. With printing every Monday morning, all copies of KCN arrive to our readership on Wednesday each week.

Preprints: With our efficient distribution, KCN "zoning options" revolve around The Register-Mails' carrier and motor route zone options. At present, those Register-Mail carrier/motor routes are in revision with finalization and publication of those options scheduled for mid September. Rest assured that at present and thereon, all preprints from every advertiser are being delivered to your clients, as specified in all insertion orders.

Daily News Tribune to Switch to Semi-Weekly Distribution

The Daily News Tribune, in Waltham (MA), will be switching from daily distribution (Mon-Fri) to twice-weekly (Tue & Fri) effective August 31st, 2010.  The Gatehouse Media publication will be renamed the Waltham News Tribune, and will reduce its local news coverage to covering only Waltham (per the announcement on their website).

The Daily News Tribune currently also covers news in Newton and other surrounding communities near Waltham. This reduction in news coverage should not have a significant impact on the distribution of the publication, as the recent ABC audit indicates there is minimal distribution outside the Waltham area.

Monmouth Pennysaver Goes to Mail Delivery

The Monmouth Pennysaver, a Gatehouse Media publciation covering Monmouth, Illinois and the Green County area, will be shifting from carrier delivery to 100% direct mail delivery in April 2010, per Wendy Todd, Advertising Director.

Gatehouse Media - Vendor Closing

The Yarmouth Pennysaver will cease publishing on May 1st, 2009 per Sara Cherchia, National Account Manager with Gatehouse Media. The Gatehouse media publications Register and Cape Codder do help cover that area.

Gatehouse Media had closed the Kansas City Kansan and Wyandotte County Shopper on January 10, 2009.