The publisher of the 12-year-old community weekly the Henrico Citizen weighs in on Henrico TD, a competing weekly planning to launch in October from the company that owns the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Tom Lappas, a former Top 40 Under 40 recipient, writes in a Facebook post that he welcomes competition, but that the new publication's primary goal is "to kill us off, no matter how much money it hemorrhages in the process."
The creation of the Henrico TD, along with a rebranding of the Midlothian Exchange as Chesterfield TD, was announced earlier this week.
Here's the complete post from Lappas:
Today is the 12th anniversary of the first issue of my newspaper. I'm proud to celebrate another year in business and tremendously appreciative of all of our readers and advertisers.…[ Read more ]