The Low Down also joined us in taking home an award for Best Community Promotion. (We won first prize for our Townships Young Voices inaugural edition.) “In a creative promotion entitled: “No News is Bad News,” the Low Down published a virtually blank newspaper, demonstrating what would be lost if yet another local community publication disappeared. Their third-place award recognized their creativity in bringing attention to the fact that, of the nearly 475 news operations that have closed across Canada since 2008, 361 of them have been community newspapers. (View the issue below)
On that note, if you believe the Townships Sun matters to you and your community, please subscribe and consider giving a subscription to someone else, as we celebrate the midpoint of our 50th anniversary year.
