O’Rourke Media Group to relaunch print publication in Milton, Vt. | Business
The Milton Unbiased is coming again as a month-to-month print publication on Friday, Oct. 11.
The O’Rourke Media Group group is worked up for the chance to raised serve the Milton group with a hyper-local print publication that shall be mailed to 100% of households, plus extra copies delivered to high-traffic areas.
The Unbiased will proceed to interact readers with every day and well timed information posted to its web site, electronic mail publication and social media.
Again in April 2020, the Unbiased stopped printing and have become digital-only in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the lack of some prime advertisers.
“Like nearly each different enterprise, we have been compelled to make selections to maintain our enterprise viable in the course of the pandemic. In hindsight, discontinuing print was the unsuitable choice,” mentioned Jim O’Rourke, CEO-owner of O’Rourke Media Group. “We have now a fantastic group in Vermont, which actually makes this continued growth doable. And, readers and native companies actually supported us with bringing print again to the Essex market final 12 months; we’re optimistic about incomes the identical degree of help in Milton.”
Printed the second Friday of each month, the redesigned paper will ship the native information and data you want together with protection of native authorities, faculties, companies and occasions.
The paper will even embrace longer investigative items, eye-catching images, obituaries, letters to the editor, community-contributed content material, native promoting and extra.
Shannon Gunderson will proceed to be the Milton Unbiased’s lead workers reporter and Bridget Higdon its writer. OMG’s different Vermont reporters, together with Jean McBride, Josh Ellerbrock, Aidan Schonbrun, Ella Ruehsen and Jackie DiBartolomeo will even contribute reporting.
Attain the newsroom at [email protected].
“I began my journalism profession as a reporter for the Unbiased, so it’s particularly significant for my first venture as writer to be bringing print again,” Higdon mentioned. “You’ve requested time and again, and we’ve listened. Native journalism is alive and effectively in Northwest Vermont.”
Promoting and advertising and marketing in Milton shall be spearheaded by Heather Younger, Jeff Abbott, Cullen Foley and Suzanne Lynn (earlier proprietor). OMG can also be all the time recruiting for extra gross sales professionals to hitch the group. candidates ought to ship their resume to Bridget Higdon at [email protected].
Trying forward, O’Rourke Media Group will proceed to increase with its month-to-month print and digital technique all through Chittenden County, serving readers and advertisers on the hyper-local degree whereas constructing a strong, regional presence.
In regards to the Firm
O’Rourke Media Group is a family-owned, diversified media firm that was fashioned in 2018. Initially only a holding firm that owned just a few newspapers, O’Rourke Media Group (OMG) has established itself as an industry-leading, digital media firm comprising a innovative digital company and a formidable group of award-winning, hyper-local print newspapers and area of interest magazines. OMG now operates in 9 states and 38 markets with 51 publications and hyper-local web sites.
