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Newspaper folds after six months
By Chris Evans
Kansan staff writer
Articles in the final issue of the Lawrence Observer telling of the newspaper's demise did not convey the regret in the voice of Janet Majure, the editor who decided to end publication.
Majure said she hoped her readers were happy with the job she and her staff had done. They tried hard to make the paper something special, she said.
"I hope the people think that I gave it a good shot and that I was fair," Majure said. "And I hope that they miss us."
"Based on what I've heard, I think they will."
"Based on what I've heard, I think they will." Majure has been publishing, editing and helping to update the website. It was free to the public. During its six-month existence, she said, circulation climbed steadily from 7,000 to 11,000.
Despite the increase in circulation, Majure said, the Observer was unable to generate the money necessary to fund the project.
"For one reason or another, we did not sell enough advertisements or find enough advertisers who would work with us regularly." she said.
Majure said that one reason for the paper's lack of advertising support was that it was often seen as too crowded.
"I'm not a political ideologue or anything," she said.
"That's not why I started the newspaper. But this is
enough of a small town that people are concerned about what we write."
In the end, the Observer lost more money than it made,
Majure said. Problems stemmed not only from difficulties
with advertising, she said, but also from distribution
complications.
Majure tried to make the Observer readily available to the public, she said, and it was not easy. In particular, Majure said she had problems getting the paper distributed at the University of Kansas.
"The University is very bureaucratic," she said. "It took me months to get past them.
This summer Majure got permission to distribute the Observer on campus. She said she thought it had been well received.
"I thought a lively opinion page would be welcome in Lawrence."
"I had hoped to give Lawrence residents, students and non-students, something I didn't think they were getting from the other newspapers," she said. "I wanted to provide a forum for a lot of different opinions.
One of the columns on Maurey's opinion page was The Near Side, by Tim Miller, assistant professor of religious studies. Miller, who formerly published a monthly column in *The Week*, said he was distressed to see the end of the paper.
"it grieves me deeply that the Observer is going under," he said.
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Thursday, September 14, 1989
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