Chris Wilson news blog

The initial response to the merged newspaper, the Monroe County Journal, is very favorable. What used to be The Amory Advertiser and The Aberdeen Examiner is now the MCJ (I call it mojo). It’s what the company’s officials have promised … new, bigger and better. This new paper has all of the county’s news and is much bigger than its predecessor papers. Some new staff is coming on to join the current staffs in the coming weeks and it will be even more improved in terms of meeting advertisers’ needs and in covering more of the news that’s happening around Monroe County. Let us know what you want to see in this still transitioning newspaper. We’ll try to tailor it to your requests (within reason). We still have offices in Amory and Aberdeen and plan to keep both of them in years to come so both of the county’s major cities will be served.  We are in the process of getting a new web site up and running for the MCJ, independent of the Tupelo Daily Journal’s site which we are currently linked to. The most amazing thing about this merger is that prices for subcriptions and ads will not be going up. In fact, subscriptions are at an all time low until June … $15 a year.