Beginning next week, the Nanaimo News Bulletin will be the city’s only community newspaper.
The Nanaimo Daily News publishes its final issue tomorrow (Jan. 29). There is no joy in our newsroom as we lose not only our competitors, but colleagues and friends. If fewer stories get told in Nanaimo, the community will be worse off for it.
But we at the News Bulletin will do our best not to allow that to happen – we intend to tell as many of those stories as we can.
We understand, accept and embrace the responsibility that goes with being the newspaper of record in this city.
We would like to be able to tell you what changes will come from this altered media reality in Nanaimo, but we don’t quite know ourselves. For the time being, there won’t be any major format change. We will continue to move forward with the model that has allowed us to remain a viable business.
Even though our print issue hits doorsteps only twice a week, the News Bulletin never stops publishing. Our website is updated many times every day with new articles, photos and other content. Everyone in our newsroom is active on social media, sharing news and interacting with readers in an ever-changing online world.
Moving forward, we ask for your news tips, feedback, trust, support and readership. The News Bulletin isn’t much more than a stack of newsprint up until the moment when it gets read. Only then can a newspaper inform, analyze and entertain and provoke thought, outrage and conversation.
So please, pitch us your story ideas. Comment and criticize. Write letters to the editor. Like us on Facebook. Complain if your paper doesn’t get delivered. Buy ads. Flip through our flyers. Read. React.
More than ever before, the News Bulletin is Nanaimo’s newspaper. These are your stories, Nanaimo. Let’s tell them together.