The Post-Standard to move newspaper printing from Syracuse plant

Syracuse, N.Y. – Printing of The Write-up-Common will shift from Clinton Square to Progress Local’s press facility in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, commencing in August.

Tim Kennedy, regional president for Advance Regional, reported the alter will not influence delivery times for Post-Typical subscribers. The newspaper will keep on to be printed seven times a 7 days and be property-sent on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays and readily available at retail outlets the other days.

He mentioned the glimpse and information material of the newspaper will not adjust.

The media company’s journalists, income industry experts and other workforce moved in 2013 from its workplaces on Clinton Sq. to Merchants Commons on South Warren Avenue.

In 2017, Progress marketed that Clinton Square making the place the newspaper has been printed given that the early 1970s. The customer, VIP Structures, leased back again to the newspaper the printing facility in the rear of the making.

Kennedy stated the lease will expire at the finish of the calendar year, which he reported was a sizeable factor in the conclusion to move production.

The press has been employed considerably less as extra readers get their information from the newspaper’s on the net partners: syracuse.com, nyup.com and the e-Write-up-Conventional, the electronic reproduction of the newspaper.

In addition, the business has seen a fall in the total of printing it does for other publications, section of a nationwide decline in print publication sales. In 2014, the press printed 7 publications in addition to The Put up-Standard. Right now, over and above The Post-Normal, it does the printing for a single daily publication and two more compact non-day-to-day prospects.

Kennedy stated one more aspect was the require to invest hundreds of thousands of pounds to switch out of date components and linked programs for the press, which was put in in 2002 as part of a $40 million expansion.

Paying out the additional revenue to improve the press are unable to be justified by the plant’s latest use, he said. That cash is far better expended on regional news protection, Kennedy reported.

The 20 comprehensive-time and 18 element-time workers who operate the press will be supplied other positions with the enterprise. Individuals who select to go away will be provided severance and career placement support.

The Harrisburg plant prints The Patriot-Information, a day-to-day newspaper owned by Advance Neighborhood.