The Gazette is ending its membership with the Associated Press come April 1. This is not a decision we’ve made lightly. We have history with AP. We’ve been a member for decades. Joe Hladky, chairman of The Gazette Co. board, has served on the Associated Press board. We’ve mulled this decision for four years. The [...]

Amid last week’s whirlwind news on Hurricane Sandy and the last days of election season came some well-deserved accolades for Gazette staff from the Inland Press Association. Reporters Rick Smith, Gregg Hennigan, Erin Jordan and Max Freund all placed in the association’s national journalism contest, as did our website, TheGazette.com. Among newspapers of 25,001-75,000 circulation, [...]

Some key changes are coming to The Gazette, beginning Sunday, and many of those changes are driven by feedback from our readers. Click here to take an online survey about the redesign. We appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts. You told us you’re busy and want a newspaper that’s easy to navigate [...]

Editor’s note: We blogged Sunday about changes to TheGazette.com and The Gazette that launched this week, but there’s been some confusion around the online commenting piece. So we’re reposting that part of the explainer for those who may have missed it. Previously posted: Also on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012, we’ll launch major changes to online [...]