It is strange. Bizarre, but in a good way.
This isn't about layoffs and the misery of being a journalist dinosaur. It is the opposite.
I am reminded of Division One colleges announcing they recruited a top-rated quarterback. "He picked us!!!"
This is from Twitter this morning. Nick Morgan is a former employee of the Mail Tribune. He just picked a team. Scott Stoddard is the editor of the Grants Pass Daily Courier, which is expanding its service into Jackson County. EO Media is the other suitor for the attention of readers in the Rogue Valley, and they, too, are staffing up by hiring former Mail Tribune employees. Journalists are in demand.
The Daily Courier publishes five days a week and is up and running now. The Rogue Valley Tribune will be a 24-7 on-line newspaper, with a print edition published three times a week and will be up and running in a week or two.
I urge people to subscribe to both. Let's see how this settles out.
Daily Courier: http://www.thedailycourier.com/circulation/subscribe.html/
Rogue Valley Tribune: www.rvtrib.com
The www.rvtrib.com link goes live on Monday, I just learned.
The link for the Rogue Valley Tribune doesn't seem to be working.