SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Managers of a weekly newspaper in northern Utah have announced it will stop publication and close down, saying its business model no longer works.
The Dec. 4 edition of The Davis Clipper will be its last after 129 years of publication, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. The website will also shut down.
Publisher R. Gail Stahle said in a statement that the Bountiful-based paper has reported on life in Davis County under three generations of the Stahle family.
“My family has loved publishing the Clipper since 1891,” Stahle said. “Each generation has cherished the opportunity and understood the value of a community newspaper.”
Stahle said the 11 full-time employees and multiple stringers were notified of the decision last week.
The decision comes as the newspaper struggled over the past decade with declining revenue from advertising and subscriptions, Stahle said, adding that the pandemic only worsened those conditions.
The announcement follows news that the state’s two largest daily newspapers, The Salt Lake Tribune and The Deseret News, would both stop daily production of a printed newspaper starting next year and instead print one edition each week.
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