‘The Press Of Atlantic City’ Is Starting A ‘Hyperlocal’ Newspaper And Closing Six Weeklies (mediapost.com)

The Press of Atlantic City is launching what it says is a hyperlocal newspaper: The Current of Linwood, Northfield and Somers Point. It will arrive in every mailbox in those communities in the first week of October, wrote W.F. “Buzz” Keough. the executive editor of The Press of Atlantic City, on Saturday.

However, the Press is ceasing publication of six remaining weekly Currents and in Atlantic and Cape May counties.

“We don’t make this decision lightly: The Press has had a role in publishing the Currents/Gazettes since 1997,” Keough reports.
more at: https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/377091/the-press-of-atlantic-city-is-starting-a-hyperl.html

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