Our next print edition, the December issue, will be the last regular RN&R in print.
Newspapers have a habit of trying to spin negative developments—layoffs, getting acquired by profit-hungry corporations, frequency decreases, etc.—as positives. While there is positive news about the RN&R that I’ll get to in a bit, I’m not going to spin the end of our monthly print edition: It stinks. We still print 25,000 of these each month, and almost all of them are picked up, throughout Reno, Sparks, Carson City, Gardnerville, Minden, Truckee and all around Tahoe.
To those of you who depend our print edition for a monthly dose of news: I’m sorry. But due to increased costs, a decrease in print advertising and various other factors (like the absence of a web printer in Northern Nevada since 2022), the monthly losses are increasing—and I don’t have deep pockets. In fact, to overextend the metaphor, my pockets are rather shallow, and we’ll lose at least $4,000 on the November issue. Given the situation our country is in right now, I don’t see the economic conditions getting better before they get much worse…