Courtesy of Colorado Secretary of StateA screenshot of the Daily Sentinel e-edition that readers will receive Monday and Tuesday in lieu of a print newspaper.
The recent 32 percent tariff on Canadian newsprint spurred the decision to cut down to a five day paper, but the financial struggles aren’t new for the Sentinel, which first started publishing in 1893. The cost of newsprint had gone up significantly during the same time period the paper lost 75 percent of their advertising revenue.
Daily Sentinel publisher Jay Seaton talked to Colorado Matters about how the paper came to the decision to cut the number of paper editions, as opposed to laying off staff or raising prices for subscribers. Seaton said this option would hopefully have the least impact on their First Amendment mission