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The Humboldt Sun, Battle Mountain Bugle and Lovelock Review-Miner will be printed in Carson City beginning in July, the papers announced recently.
All three newspapers are owned by Winnemucca Publishing and had been printed on the company’s own presses in Winnemucca.
“Our aging press, with last-century technology and limited paging and color capacity, is difficult and costly to maintain,” according to an editor’s note. “Upgrading the old press or purchasing a new press did not make financial sense.”
So the switch is being made to the presses of Sierra Nevada Media Group, which publishes the Nevada Appeal, Lahontan Valley News and a half-dozen other papers in northern Nevada and California.
The biggest difference for readers is that the pages will be 2 inches shorter. Also, the Sun and Review-Miner are moving to Wednesday distribution to accommodate the extra traveling time from the Carson City pressroom.
“We are not cutting back on our reporting staff and will maintain reporters that live in the communities we serve,” the editor’s note said.