Yellow Springs: A community haven in the local news firestorm
The award-winning News serves up everything from government meetings to community life
By Maggie Fipps
YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – The village of Yellow Springs is home to 3,718 people, but you wouldn’t know it by walking through the vibrant downtown.
Walk down Xenia Avenue, and you pass the baby-blue Sunrise Cafe. The Little Art Theatre juts its small marquee into the main street a little farther down. Across the street, Tom’s Market sells groceries out of the same brick ...
Newspapers and memories not as compatible as they once were
Washington Court House Record-Herald works to satisfy longtime readers with fewer editions, younger readers on Facebook
By Maggie Fipps
WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, Ohio – February 3, 1937. The first publication date for the Washington Court House Record-Herald. As with many dailies in the 20th century, the Herald merged with the Record Republican “to serve the merchants and the people of this community in any way which a paper can be of service,” according to an ad in that day’s ...
Struggling to survive in Xenia
As newspapers across the United States shut down, Xenia's newspaper keeps grinding along.
Editor’s note: Since the reporting for this article, Scott Halasz no longer works for the Xenia Daily Gazette.
By Maggie Fipps
XENIA, Ohio – Scott Halasz, former editor at the Xenia Daily Gazette, had to scrap to stay in journalism.
Admittedly, it wasn’t his first choice. In high school, they had meetings for clubs students could join as electives: yearbook, newspaper, and radio.
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