Thank You, Raleigh Chronicle
The Raleigh Chronicle announced that it has been purchased by another publication and will shut down tomorrow. This is unfortunate as TRC has done an excellent job of independently covering the fun aspects of Raleigh.
While the site never focused on the parade of crime-riddled psychos that adorn traditional newspapers and TV news sites, it’s ironic that TRC’s best moment just came weeks ago when they were closely involved in solving the Eve Carson murder case. TRC posted the colorized picture of the accused and a link to his MySpace page. It showed that focused websites can do a better job at what they do than traditional media.
One of Raleigh’s attributes is the growing list of local blogs and sites. This was addressed in Sunday’s N&O. Sustaining a local site requires a lot of stamina and creativity, but don’t let that deter anyone out there wanting to do this. We need more sites like The Raleigh Chronicle.
You will be missed!
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April 15th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Not really what the article on their homepage said. Shutting down and being published by a new owner are not the same thing.
April 15th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Ah! Good point. They have changed their article since I posted this news. Their original article said,”After serving over a million readers in the Raleigh community, the locally owned Raleigh Chronicle will close on Tuesday, as another newspaper purchases the publication.”
They have since removed the word “close”. They also have no update today about what is going on.
April 16th, 2008 at 12:36 am
It also appears they have now removed the original post all together and are playing it off like nothing happened. Sketchy.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:30 am
Dear DPK: We apologize for the confusion caused by our actions here at the paper. Originally, the Raleigh Downtowner, which purchased the Chronicle, was going to simply forward the Raleigh2.com domain to the Downtowner website and start doing online content of their own. As such, The Raleigh Chronicle would have been effectively shut down.
However, after receiving comments from readers and after careful consideration, the Raleigh Downtowner decided to keep the Raleigh Chronicle as a separate name, entity, and website to keep traffic up and to keep the same technology platform used by the Chronicle.
Again, we apologize for the mixed messages on our part, but keeping the Raleigh Chronicle open as a separate entity was decided to be the most beneficial move in the long run, but that decision was made after our original posting.
Thank you for your support (and we really appreciate the comments from GoGoRaleigh.com) and we hope that you will continue to read both the Chroncile and the Downtowner editions. We feel that locally-run blogs and locally-owned media are vital to any community.