DURHAM – Time is running out for the print edition of the Durham Herald Sun on Saturdays, according to the Poynter Institute.
“The Durham (North Carolina) Herald Sun and the Bellingham (Washington) Herald will no longer print on Saturdays, starting July 6,” according to the Florida-based institute’s Tom Jones. Both are part of the McClatchy chain as are The News and Observer in Raleigh and the Charlotte Observer. The Mrytle Beach Sun News, another McClatchy paper, dropped print on Saturdays for an expanded digital edition.
Sara Glines, McClatchy’s Carolinas & East regions president and publisher who became publisher of The N&O in 2016, told Jones:
“You’re going to get all the same content that you got before,” Glines said. “You’re just going to get it in a different way.”
According to Jones, the “Digital Saturdays” effort delivered an 8 percent increase in digital subscribers plus “revenue was not impacted and virtually no one cancelled their subscription.”
