For the primary time within the paper’s historical past, The Buffalo Information didn’t publish a print situation this Fourth of July — and it seemingly received’t be the final time, both.
The Buffalo Information will now not be publishing print points on main holidays, the paper’s company proprietor, Lee Enterprises, introduced in an electronic mail to subscribers.
Lee Enterprises stated in that electronic mail that it made the change to “permit our staff to benefit from the vacation with mates and households.”
However the Buffalo Newspaper Guild, the union that represents the paper’s journalists, stated in a tweet that the transfer was merely a price reducing measure.
“Our father or mother firm has determined to cease printing on main holidays to save lots of $$$ on printing and supply prices, easy,” the guild stated. “[Lee Enterprises] shouldn’t peddle fiction to our readers and subscribers.”
The Buffalo Information won’t publish a print version on New 12 months’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas, based on the paper’s web site.
An e-edition of the paper was nonetheless launched this previous Independence Day.
