Time to read The Reporter

Editorial

We all know what people say about the print news industry, but there is still a little bit of magic in print media. A copy of the local newspaper with a photo of kids from your family donating time to a worthy cause, getting an academic honor, or participating in 4-H is still a big deal in our part of America.

We cannot tell you how often someone will call our publisher or circulation director to ask where they can get a print copy of a particular edition because someone they know was in our pages.

A local newspaper is part of a community’s identity. It is the historical record of life in this place and this time.

This newspaper gains subscribers every month in an era where most papers are losing them. We do that by staying true to our first principles:

• Report the news. Don’t invent it, don’t color it, and don’t tell people what we want them to feel or think about it. Give them the facts and let them make up their own minds and hearts.
• Share the good news as much as the bad.
• Don’t forget that while we choose what to include, the news belongs to our readers, not to us.

Even newspapers that try to get that right can lose their way.

In late June, a local newspaper that was founded in 1904 closed its doors with no notice to its subscribers, and, in many cases, no notice to its clients. That paper’s final editions were online only, leaving its subscribers frustrated for weeks before it went out of business.

Some former subscribers to the Noblesville Times (Noblesville Daily Times, or The Times of Noblesville, or whatever they were calling themselves in their final days), have told The Reporter they had paid for a full year of a service that they did not receive.

The Reporter is here to help.

If you have a friend, family member, or neighbor who was a Times subscriber, The Hamilton County Reporter will give them a free subscription in print, digital, or both until January 2027. All we ask is some kind of proof that you had paid that now-defunct newspaper for a subscription.

Email Subscribe@ReadTheReporter.com or call Reporter Circulation Director Isaac Taylor at (765) 585-9519 and you can get news from all corners of Hamilton County until the new year. If you like it, you can pay for a subscription for the entirety of 2027.

Because this is your hometown newspaper, if you have news to share, send it our way and we will try to fit it in our pages.

If a member of your family or business gets an accolade or reaches a milestone, let us know.

If you know someone who is about to celebrate a 20-, 30-, or 50-year wedding anniversary, surprise them with a couple photos and a short article in the local newspaper.

If grandma goes to the Grand Canyon, send us a photo and we might even put it on the front page!

If you or someone you care about deserves to be part of the historic record, email News@ReadTheReporter.com with the details.