Blackwell Journal-Tribune shifting to remote work in April

The Blackwell Journal-Tribune staff will be shifting to a remote-work environment, meaning the newspaper will no longer have an office at 523 S. Main St. However, nothing else about the newspaper has changed.

Starting at the beginning of April, the newspaper staff will be working from home. The newspaper is not shutting down; the only difference is that the paper will no longer have its own physical office. The Journal-Tribune will continue to provide the same local news and information that it has for more than 100 years, both in print and online.

Instead of taking payments and advertising information to the newspaper’s current office, Journal-Tribune readers and customers will have some options. They will be able to drop off payments, garage sale advertisements and other printed information in-person with Brooke at Green’s Country Clinic, 223 E. Blackwell Ave. Payments can be dropped off during the clinic’s normal business hours, Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday from 9 a.m. to noon.

The Journal-Tribune will also be installing a drop-box at the clinic for customers to drop printed information, payments or garage sale ads off after the clinic’s normal hours. The drop-box will be on a brick wall facing Blackwell Avenue, and it will be labeled for the newspaper. The drop-box will be installed in the coming weeks next to the newspaper’s maroon coin-operated newspaper rack.

All of the newspaper’s current contact information – phone numbers, email addresses, social media channels and website – will remain the same.

The newspaper’s phone number is 580-363-3370. Email addresses are composing@blackwelljournaltribune.net and news@blackwelljournaltribune.net. The post office box in Blackwell is No. 760. Readers can also contact The Journal-Tribune via its Facebook page, Blackwell Journal Tribune.

The newspaper’s website, www.blackwelljournaltribune.net, will remain one of the top sources for news in Kay County and north-central Oklahoma. The paper will continue to be produced in a weekly print format. The Journal-Tribune is printed by The Ponca City News.

Subscriptions, both for print and online readership, can be purchased and renewed online, by phone or via mail.

The Journal-Tribune will no longer be housed in its current building because the building’s landlord has other plans for the facility. The change mirrors evolving workplace trends across the United States. Media outlets, corporations and other kinds of businesses have increasingly shifted to remote-work formats in the past three years.

The staff of The Journal-Tribune would like to thank all readers and customers for their continued support and readership.