Capital Region News

Editor Ends Newspaper’s Short Life

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Dave Lucas

Published August 27, 2015 at 4:55 PM EDT

An upstate newspaper has called it quits.

The Schoharie News, an online-only news website that reinvented itself as a print weekly broadsheet earlier this year, has thrown in the towel after 13 weeks.

The online Watershed Post reports the newspaper's owner, editor and founder Tim Knight, said he decided to close the paper after he realizing that he was making less than half of what he made while working at a local deli. He told the post via email that he gave it his best.

Schoharie County is down to one dedicated print weekly, the Times Journal.

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Dave Lucas is WAMC’s Capital Region Bureau Chief. Born and raised in Albany, he’s been involved in nearly every aspect of local radio since 1981. Before joining WAMC, Dave was a reporter and anchor at WGY in Schenectady. Prior to that he hosted talk shows on WYJB and WROW, including the 1999 series of overnight radio broadcasts tracking the JonBenet Ramsey murder case with a cast of callers and characters from all over the world via the internet. In 2012, Dave received a Communicator Award of Distinction for his WAMC news story "Fail: The NYS Flood Panel," which explores whether the damage from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee could have been prevented or at least curbed. Dave began his radio career as a “morning personality” at WABY in Albany.

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