United Methodist Reporter Closing Doors

[HammerStone]

Link: http://www.unitedmethodistreporter.com/2013/05/umr-communications-including-united-methodist-reporter-to-close/

In recent days, various organizational alternatives were explored internally and with friends of the ministry, Mr. Heath said, but closure became the only realistic step.

“There was no solution that didn’t involve red ink,” he told board members.

Mr. Heath added, “This decision obviously affects not only our newspaper customers, but other customers that have relied on us for printing and mailing services for many other products. We are sorry to leave our partners in ministry who have been so faithful to continue their relationship with us. We will do our best to help these ministries find a new print provider.”

 

[aspen]

they just need to transfer to an online format

 

[HammerStone]

Agreed. Most forms of print are dealing with this regardless of whether they are secular or not. Reading is shifting to the internets ( :) ) whether we like it or not because it's much less overhead.

I think it may be more of a market-size issue, though.