By Matthew McCully – The Stanstead Journal, Quebec’s oldest weekly newspaper, printed its last weekly edition Wednesday. In a note on Page 3, the paper said it plans to continue printing a condensed version featuring local news and features for subscribers around 10 times per year and will have a pay-wall protected web presence in the coming months, but the weekly edition is ‘no longer a viable business’.
“I’m sad, but not surprised,” commented Ross Murray, former owner of the Stanstead Journal. “It’s not easy to run a newspaper,” Murray said. “Almost 15 years ago, it was really hard to make ends meet then, and there were local businesses and no social media presence,” he said. See full story in the Thursday, May 30 edition of The Record.
