Staff Report

INDIANAPOLIS — A media company has announced it will cut the number of days each week it produces print editions of four Indiana newspapers.

AIM Media, based in Columbus, owns the Columbus Republic, Seymour Tribune, Greenfield Daily Reporter and Franklin Daily Journal.

Beginning in September, the Columbus, Seymour and Greenfield papers will be printed only on Wednesdays and Saturdays, according to a report by Patrick Beane for Indiana Public Media. The Franklin paper will stop printing on Mondays but continue to be printed Tuesday through Saturday, according to reports.

“More and more of our loyal subscribers and new readers are getting their news through one or more of our online delivery methods,” wrote AIM Indiana publisher Richard Clark in an Aug. 12 letter to readers. “The world has pivoted to digital delivery of information. We have to pivot with it.

“It is the news itself that is important, and digital delivery provides us with the speed and cost efficiencies that we need in order to continue to report on local issues.”

Last November, Clark was named publisher at the Republic and vice president and group publisher with responsibility for all AIM Media properties in Indiana, according to Editor & Publisher.