Show the love for local news
Promo coffee mug, circa 1988, when the Coeur d’Alene Press transitioned from afternoon to a morning edition.
KERRI THORESON/Press
Tomorrow, April 9, is Local News Day. I realize I’m preaching to the choir since if you’re reading this you already recognize the value of your local newspaper. At this often-chaotic moment in time there’s a comfortable familiarity with a product that’s the result of dedicated newsgatherers and professional journalists, people who live in the community they report on and write about.
Our communities have changed and evolved considerably since my first day at the Coeur d’Alene Press in 1986 when the paper was published in an afternoon edition. In 1988 the Press converted to a morning edition, which certainly had a major effect on the circulation department and the paper boy on a bicycle concept of delivery.
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