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Tuesday, January 20, 2009 - 7:44 PM
With little fanfare the Wenatchee World, a daily newspaper in Central Washington, recently stopped publishing weekly columns covering hunting, fishing and conservation news. Dave Graybill, known as the "Fishin' Magician" and longtime outdoors writer Leroy Ledeboer's articles were cut not to a lack of reader interest but instead, became a victim of cost cutting.
World Sports Editor Steve Maher confirmed the columns were dropped due to "financial considerations". While the World will no longer have the talents of these two writers, they do plan on sharing information provided from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and also coverage from Andy Dappen, the editor of Wenatcheeoutdoors.org, which covers non-motorized, non-consumptive outdoors recreation within an hour's drive of Wenatchee.
The Wenatchee World, like many print media publications, is facing financial hard times due to declining ad revenues during a nationwide recession. As bad as the news is about losing this valuable and informative outdoors coverage, things could be worse. In Western Washington, the venerable Seattle Post-Intelligencer is for sale and may fold completely as a daily paper.
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