There has been a tiny little change to your Chickasaw Journal this week.
Today, under the Chickasaw Journal banner and mission statement “A locally owned newspaper dedicated to the service of God and mankind,” you will find the lines Volume 110, No. 1.
Your Chickasaw Journal – or actually the Houston Times and later the Houston Post – published their first edition 110 years ago.
We are sort of proud of that number and what it represents for us and for this community.
Very few enterprises in Chickasaw County, or Northeast Mississippi, can boast of being in business more than a century.
You see, newspapers are not the shiny new toy in the media box, but we are the medium that has recorded your births, graduations, marriages, successes, failures and obituaries for 110 years.
Look for those on the internet. We bet most dated information found on The Net is copied from a community newspaper.
There are those who say newspapers are a dying business. They said that when radio arrived, they said that when television began beaming and they say it today about a world connected by Internet, Facebook and Email.
And your Chickasaw Journal is still here. We are a business and institution that you look to for honest, current and local news about people and places that are unique to you.
Unlike radio stations that run ads about events the day after they occur and charge local businesses for it, we have developed a reputation for honest, long-term relationships with local advertisers.
Unlike television stations that roll into town to drag up the dirt on Chickasaw County and leave, we have a local office and our employees go to school and church with you and have developed a reputation for spelling it right and telling it fairly.
And we have an Internet presence that is second to none in Chickasaw County. Just ask to see our numbers.
One of the key indicators of a vibrant and growing community is a newspaper. We don’t survive if new things are not happening and businesses are not selling.
We now deliver 9,800 papers to every home in Chickasaw County every week and no other medium on this planet can match that!
Maybe your Chickasaw Journal has always been the new toy in the box?
We’ll bring you a new one with new advertising, new stories, new photos and new ideas next week.
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