By: The Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil has announced that it will stop publishing a Monday edition to offset the rising costs of supplies.
Publisher Tom Schmitt said Monday that the newspaper will suspend indefinitely publication of its Monday edition beginning Feb. 16.
He said the move is an effort to avoid passing substantial increases on to advertisers and subscribers.
Schmitt said readers will get the same amount of local news in six days that they did in seven days.
"We're simply going to repackage how we deliver our local news reports the first of the week," he said.
The Nonpareil decided to suspend the Monday edition because it generally contains the least amount of local news. The newspaper will continue to produce an online version on Monday.
He said news of weekend events will be on the newspaper's Web site by noon on Monday, with the stories being updated for the Tuesday edition.
Schmitt said the decision comes as the industry experiences record increases for costs of supplies, particularly newsprint, which has jumped 35 percent in the past year.
"We could either pass on the cost increase to our advertisers and subscribers at a time when everyone is suffering from a down economy, or we could cut our costs and leave our current rates in place," Schmitt said. "We chose what we believe is the least painful solution."
The announcement was made during a staff meeting Monday morning.
The Nonpareil is owned by the Omaha World-Herald Company.
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