“So it cost me my job.”Īnderson’s April 12 Facebook post included a screenshot of the texts from Grohe. “It’s one thing to say, ‘Hey, I’m going to move you somewhere else,’ or, ‘Hey, I’m going to let you go,’ but it’s another thing to say, ‘Hey, I’m going to close down this newspaper,’” Anderson told Starting Line. He publicly shared the news of the paper’s pending demise in an attempt to save the local institution.
Grohe relayed the Graphic-Advocate news to Anderson, who had moved back from Texas in 2019 to lead the paper, in a text message.Īnderson grew up in the area and has a deep affection and sense of loyalty for Lake City and the Graphic-Advocate. In April, Mid-America CEO Matt Grohe said he was going to close the Graphic-Advocate and put out the last issue on May 4. The company publishes about two dozen community weeklies in Iowa. Mid-America acquired the Lake City Advocate and the Lake City Graphic in 2007 and eventually consolidated the two publications into the Graphic-Advocate. The 122-year-old paper’s future was called into question earlier this year by Hampton-based Mid-America Publishing, one of the paper’s proclaimed owners. The main reason is that no one can agree on who actually owns the Lake City Graphic-Advocate. So why does Lake City, a town with a population of about 1,700 and that boasts the charming slogan of “Everything but a Lake,” have two newspapers in an era where more print publications are shuttering than opening? Anderson is also the former managing editor of crosstown rival the Lake City Graphic-Advocate, which will put out its 763rd issue this week. An Iowa town of fewer than 2,000 people is now home to a good-old-fashioned newspaper war and Tyler Anderson is smack-dab in the middle of it.Īnderson is the managing editor of the Calhoun County Phoenix, a Lake City-based newspaper that will put out its first physical issue this week.
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