A metro newspaper refugee found success at a weekly
Oct. 2, 2019
M.E. Sprengelmeyer, formerly of the Rocky Mountain News, didn’t like the direction big-city newspapers were going. So he left and bought his own paper.
M.E. Sprengelmeyer, formerly of the Rocky Mountain News, didn’t like the direction big-city newspapers were going. So he left and bought his own paper.
If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, maybe now is the time to consider buying a weekly newspaper or starting one in a “news desert,” a community that no longer has a newspaper.
Curious about owning your own newspaper? Retired weekly newspaper owner Gary Sosniecki explains why it can be the most satisfying job you’ve ever had.
In the first installment of a series of stories about attracting potential owners to community newspapers, Al Cross discusses the weekly newspaper market.