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Banner acquired by GateHouse
Banner Daily Update Fri. Feb. 29
GateHouse Media New England and Provincetown Banner, Inc. announced today that GateHouse has acquired the Provincetown Banner.
Both parties emphasized that this will strengthen the Banner’s ability to serve the communities of the Outer Cape and their readers and advertisers.
Banner publisher Alix Ritchie has issued the following statement:
Community News
Community journalism is not an occupation; it is a passion — a passion for the communities you serve. It weaves a fabric that brings a community together, providing the news that connects all who are or who want to be part of the community — wherever they are, giving advertisers the opportunity to reach their customers and providing community information. It pulls all those strands together in one place, knitting the community together.
Community journalism used to be defined as a community newspaper, but now in the 21st century, it is a lot more than that. It’s new media; it’s daily; it’s inventive new ways to link news and reaction to the news, community needs, businesses and customers. It’s more complex, more challenging…..
And more needed!
Here in this magical corner of the world, our communities — 50 miles out at sea, facing changing economic realities, working to rebuild their year-round sustainability — our very special communities so redolent of the arts and life wrested from the sea, of dunes and wind and dancing light, of the challenges of diversity, of legend and legends yet to come — our communities, at the edge, who understand what being on the edge means — deserve the very best that community journalism can give.
It has been the great good fortune of the Provincetown Banner to serve these communities. And in looking to the future, we want to assure that we have the resources to continue to meet that challenge as professionally and as creatively as we can. Our communities deserve nothing less.
It is, therefore, with great excitement that we announce that the Banner will now be part of the GateHouse family of newspapers. We will be able to do more to meet the needs of our readers and our advertisers, while at the same time being part of an enterprise dedicated to the concept of community journalism and to serving this very special and unique place. They have the resources to keep the source of your community news on the cutting edge, out here on the edge as we are. To still be your Banner, with a chance to get even better. To keep making you proud. And it doesn’t get better than that.
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Feb 28th, 2008