Buffalo News no longer publishing print issue on ‘major holidays’

For the primary time within the paper’s historical past, The Buffalo Information didn’t publish a print subject this Fourth of July — and it seemingly gained’t be the final time, both.

The Buffalo Information will not be publishing print points on main holidays, the paper’s company proprietor, Lee Enterprises, introduced in an e-mail to subscribers.

Lee Enterprises mentioned in that e-mail that it made the change to “permit our workers to benefit from the vacation with mates and households.”

However the Buffalo Newspaper Guild, the union that represents the paper’s journalists, mentioned in a tweet that the transfer was merely a price reducing measure.

“Our mother or father firm has determined to cease printing on main holidays to avoid wasting $$$ on printing and supply prices, easy,” the guild mentioned. “[Lee Enterprises] shouldn’t peddle fiction to our readers and subscribers.”

The Buffalo Information won’t publish a print version on New 12 months’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas, in keeping with the paper’s web site.

An e-edition of the paper was nonetheless launched this previous Independence Day.