The editor gave notice, prompting Persily, a Chicago transplant who has a long history in Alaska journalism, to look for another solution.He declined to say what he paid for the newspaper, but he said it was more than a fully decked-out SUV but less than six figures.The paper has a circulation of about 500, pretty good for a town with a population of less than 1,000 people, but the population swells with young people in the summer working tourism jobs.The newspaper also benefits greatly from tourist trade.With the help of a robust and advertising-filled visitors guide that is handed out to the 1 million or so cruise ship passengers that visit Skagway every summer, the newspaper can pay the owners a salary, but they probably also can’t cover a mortgage.Persily said the new owners need to stem the circulation decline, turn online readers into paid subscribers with the help of a paywall and get even more advertising into the visitor’s guide.“I think this is the best way to do it, is to find the right person or couple,” he said.Persily will set you up to “run the paper and hopefully you and Skagway will live happily ever after. “It is small town life. This May 29, 2019 photo shows Larry Persily, the publisher of The Skagway News, in the newspaper office in Skagway, Alaska. If he can’t find anyone, he’ll need to fill the editor’s position while he continues to find new owners.Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. However, be forewarned: You’re out if you misspell “Skagway” or “Persily” in your email to him at paper@alaskan.com.His goal is to have new owners in place by January. (Molly McCammon via AP)ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Free to a good home: One newspaper.Not a single edition of a paper but the entire newspaper.Publisher Larry Persily is willing to give away The Skagway News to the right person or couple who are willing to move to Skagway, Alaska, a cruise ship town that once boasted four newspapers during the height of the Klondike Gold Rush days.“The only way this paper has a long-term future, and anything that I’ve ever seen that works with small town weeklies or bi-weeklies is where the small town editor owns, lives and are in the community,” he said. The business's real bread-and-butter, though, is the annual visitors guide published each summer for the hordes of tourists disgorged daily by visiting cruise ships. But I think it can be done. Turns out, it wasn't free. Not a single edition of a paper but the entire newspaper. "Serving the Gateway to the Klondike," proclaims the paper's masthead. The Marines said they had called off the search that started late Thursday afternoon when the amphibious assault vehicle sank with 15 Marines and one Navy sailor aboard. Don’t think this is going to be your step to investigative prominence reporting.”Persily said his first preference is to give the newspaper to someone from Alaska “so I don’t have to explain to them why the ferry system is messed up or why global warming is affecting salmon returns with low water in the streams or how school funding is a political issue here.”If Alaskans aren’t an option, his selection process will be somewhat arbitrary.
"I'm sure we'll have problems along the way, but I expect this will work out well. Don’t think this is going to be your step to investigative prominence reporting.”Persily said his first preference is to give the newspaper to someone from Alaska “so I don’t have to explain to them why the ferry system is messed up or why global warming is affecting salmon returns with low water in the streams or how school funding is a political issue here.”If Alaskans aren’t an option, his selection process will be somewhat arbitrary. Free to a good home: One newspaper. "Munson and Whenhoff say they're not planning any major changes, at least in the short term. However, be forewarned: You’re out if you misspell “Skagway” or “Persily” in your email to him at paper@alaskan.com.His goal is to have new owners in place by January.
And that’s what’s best.”Weekly newspapers change hands with some amount of regularity, said Rick Edmonds, the media business analyst for the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit school for journalists.Typically, they are put for sale, and the best-case scenario is they are purchased. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Free to a good home: One newspaper. “And that’s what this needs.”Persily has been editing the newspaper he purchased in April remotely from Anchorage, which is 500 miles west of Skagway, near the top of the Alaska Panhandle.It’s a two-person shop, with an editor and a business person on site. © 1998 - 2020 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. | All Rights Reserved. Readers may have included The original "Skaguay News," established in 1897, chronicled tales of desperate characters and frontier drama — most famously, the shooting death of notorious gangster Soapy Smith, in 1898.
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