YES! To Free Press Annual
Voluntary VoluntaryContribution PROGRAM
Help free press thrive in your community Help us keep your hometown newspaper thriving by making a Voluntary Contribution this holiday season.
Jerry Healey Publisher
I hope you are enjoying reading your Castle Rock News Press. Each week, our team of dedicated journalists, advertising sales representatives, page and ad designers, press workers, carriers and support staff produce one of the best community newspapers and websites in Colorado. We attend local government and school board meetings so that you can read an unbiased account of what transpired. We interview outstanding local athlete scholars contributing to our communities. We inform you about local happenings, interesting people and new business openings. In fact, on any given week, a single edition can contain more than 200 names of people.
In short, we connect you to your community. However, our business model of relying on businesses to advertise to pay for you to receive free home delivery is under pressure. In 2019, two global companies, Facebook and Google, are expected to gobble up 60% of all advertising dollars spent in Colorado. While local community newspapers like ours have weathered the storm better than daily newspapers, we are still under immense pressure from these companies. So, annually, we allow our readers to support the Castle Rock News Press. We have named this year’s effort YES! to Free Press. We offer three levels of memberships. Each level of membership provides unlimited online access to our websites, exclusive access to free tickets to events (through a raffle) and the knowledge that you are supporting a free and independent press in Castle Rock News Press. We also provide the opportunity to tip your carrier for their service.
Here are the memberships: • Contributing Member — $25 one-time donation • Sustaining Member — $50 one-time donation or $5 per month • Alpine Member* - $100 or more one-time donation or $10 or more per month
Thank you for your
Generosity & Support
(*Alpine Members have the option of having their names printed in the newspaper.) As always, thank you for being a loyal reader, and I wish you well this upcoming holiday season. Jerry Healey Publisher, Castle Rock News Press
Jerry Healey is the president and publisher of Colorado Community Media. He can be reached at jhealey@coloradocommunitymedia.com.
Should you choose not to contribute, you will still receive a free copy of the Castle Rock News Press each month. But, for those who do become members of our YES! To Free Press drive, you will be supporting quality, trusted journalism in your hometown.