There is a tiny little change to your Clarksdale Press Register this week.
Today, under the Clarksdale Press Register banner on Page One, you will find the line, Volume 160, No. 1.
We are sort of proud of those numbers and what it represents for us and to this community. Your Clarksdale Press Register published its first edition in 1865.
Very few enterprises in Coahoma County, or the Mississippi Delta, can boast of being in business more than a century-and-a-half.
You see, newspapers are not the new toy in the media box, but we are the medium that has recorded your births, graduations, marriages, successes, failures and obituaries for 160 years.
One of the key indicators of a vibrant and growing community is a newspaper. We don't survive if new things aren’t happening, businesses aren’t selling and our advertising and reader base isn’t thriving
There are those who say newspapers are a dying business. They said that when radio arrived, they said that when television began beaming and they say it today about a world connected by Internet, Facebook and Email.
And your Clarksdale Press Register is still here. We are a business and institution that you look to for honest, current and local news about people and places that are unique to you.
Unlike radio stations that use AI to create ads, blink on and off the air and charge local businesses anyway, we have developed a reputation for honest, long-term relationships with advertisers.
Unlike television stations that roll into town to drag up the dirt on Clarksdale and leave, we have a local office, our employees go to school and church with you and we shop in your stores and eat in your restaurants with you.
And we definitely are not Facebook that says anything and everything.
We work hard to protect our town’s reputation by spelling it right and telling it fairly.
And we have an Internet presence that is second to none in Coahoma County. Just ask to see our numbers.
Over the past year our website had 377,949 Page Views and 104,758 Users and advertisements on our website were viewed a whopping 1,474,416 times. No other medium on this planet can match that!
Maybe your Clarksdale Press Register has always been the new toy in the box?
We'll bring you a new one with new advertising, new stories, new photos and new ideas next week.
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