Community newspapers throughout Kansas are switching to weekly editions, reports Wichita member station KMUW. Many of these newspapers, such as the McPherson News and Information, provide local residents with their only source for local news.
Kansas residents have long turned to their local papers for items on local government, profiles of area residents, and high school football results. But many of these papers simply cannot survive as dailies. With the advent of free online news, revenue has declined. This means the McPherson News and papers like it must scale back. So these days, that means a weekly local paper is the new normal for many residents.
You can listen to to KMUW’s story about the decline of local Kansas papers here.