EDITORIAL: Celebrating our partnership with you
Inter Lake editorial | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 9 years, 9 months AGO
As we celebrate the 75th anniversary of National Newspaper Week, we thought it would be appropriate to reflect on the role of the Daily Inter Lake in our community.
As the editorial cartoon on this page suggests, the strength of the newspaper is its ability to respond to the needs of the community in many ways. Of course, we are there, day by day and week by week, collecting information that you might otherwise never hear about — what happens at a city council meeting; how a policy change in Washington, D.C., will affect your access to the Flathead National Forest; who got arrested, and why.
And we serve you in numerous other ways as well, both seen and unseen. As a community leader, we play a role in numerous organizations and causes by making donations of time and money. We also work as your advocate to ensure efficient, transparent, wise governance at the state, local and national levels.
In our partnership with our readers, we also work to provide a window on the community in our daily pages. Telling the story of you and your loved ones’ lives from birth to schooling to college or military service and on to the workplace, that is exactly what a community newspaper is.
But you also get much more than that. A majority of people in Flathead County use Daily Inter Lake advertising to help them make purchases. We didn’t just guess about that. It is information that we gleaned from an independent third-party survey.
Readers also use the legal notices, classified advertising and weather page for additional vital information, and they use the comics page, crossword puzzle and sudoku for entertainment.
Of course, we are changing with the times, too. Today’s daily newspaper is not just a collection of pages that can be clipped and posted on the refrigerator. It is also stories, videos and photos that can be posted to Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and, of course, our website at www.dailyinterlake.com. Changing technology has changed our delivery method, but not our mission.
National Newspaper Week continues from today until Oct. 11. When you are reading the Daily Inter Lake or any of our other local newspapers such as the Hungry Horse News, Whitefish Pilot, Bigfork Eagle or Lake County Leader, please know that we are proud to serve you. We’ve been serving Northwest Montana since 1889, and contrary to what you may hear from naysayers, we expect to be here a long time to come.
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