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South Shore Press warns Legislature an emergency move could 'kill a community newspaper'
Summary
The South Shore Press urged the Suffolk County Legislature to delay emergency legislation it said would strip a community paper of legal advertising revenue, which the paper's news director said would cause job losses and threaten ownership stability.
The news director of the South Shore Press told the Suffolk County Legislature on July 30 that an emergency measure under consideration to reassign legal advertising would "kill a community newspaper" and urged legislators to table the measure and meet with the paper.
Stefan I. Mychajliw, identified in the public portion as the paper’s news director, said he had learned through "the political grapevine" that the Legislature might move to remove current legal advertising allocations from the South Shore Press on an emergency basis.…
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