The Montgomery Advertiser’s riverfront manufacturing facility, which handles the every day printing and packaging of the Advertiser and different publications, will shut in Could.
The Advertiser and its mum or dad firm, Gannett, introduced the plant closure to manufacturing workers Tuesday. The Advertiser’s information workers will proceed to cowl the neighborhood from its new workplace on Dexter Avenue in downtown Montgomery.
The manufacturing facility at 425 Molton St. will print its final papers Could 5 for Could 6 editions, after which manufacturing of the Advertiser and affiliated merchandise will transfer to Jackson, Mississippi.
Readers shouldn’t discover a distinction within the high quality or supply of their print editions as soon as the change occurs, and the workers stays dedicated to native protection, stated Advertiser Govt Editor Brad Harper.
“Our staff on the Montgomery Advertiser is targeted on producing impactful, native every day journalism that helps make our neighborhood higher,” Harper stated. “That’s true now greater than ever.”
The transfer to shutter the Montgomery printing facility comes amid a time of speedy change in information consumption and a continued shift to digital readership. Information organizations have usually lower prices on massive, underused buildings and printing services to spend money on journalism and different digitally targeted progress alternatives.
“I acknowledge it is a tough time,” Harper stated. “We deeply recognize the contributions our staff have made all through their a few years of service with our Montgomery manufacturing staff.”
The present press was put in within the Advertiser’s Molton Avenue constructing in 1996 and has dealt with industrial printing work along with printing and packaging providers for different Gannett merchandise. In December, the Advertiser’s information workers moved from its neighboring workplace constructing on Molton Avenue to the renovated Kress constructing, a spot extra suited to the tempo and calls for of recent neighborhood information gathering.
“With Gannett, we’re a part of the nation’s largest group of neighborhood newspapers, and extra of these communities now need their information digitally and on-demand,” Harper stated. “We’re dedicated to delivering that information the best way readers need it.”
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The way forward for the Montgomery manufacturing facility and its presses has not but been decided.