Company founded in Butler County buys Ohio County Times-News

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Jeff Jobe has been in Hartford several times over the past few weeks meeting the management team for Andy Anderson’s newspaper holdings.

 Jobe said he began his newspaper career in 1985 working for the Bingham family in Louisville, Kentucky. This was his first job after graduating from the University of Kentucky and has been working inside the industry since that time.

 “Working for the Barry Bingham family and traveling the state gave me tremendous pride,” Jobe said. A feeling he claims to have wanted to establish for his employees since the moment he bought his first newspaper back in 1998.

 The first newspaper was located in the neighboring county of Butler, and he still owns it. When buying the Banner-Republican newspaper, it was 10 pages, black and white, the staff cut and pasted each page. He remembers driving to pick the newspapers up in Central City at that time, a print facility owned by the Anderson family.

 His brand of newspapering began to take form then, and his style became a new trend for Kentucky community newspapers. The Banner-Republican became the first weekly newspaper in Kentucky to have full color on page one every week, a dedicated editorial page, paginated pages with the use of computers and advertising sold on the top of page one.

 Jobe said with nine newspapers and a full-service commercial print facility, he isn’t expected to be involved as much as he was when he owned the one newspaper. However, he strives to be everywhere he is needed and he takes pride in empowering people who care about the communities they serve.

 This is true for the Times-News (OCTN) with the naming of Georgina Dockery as the General Manager. She has been at the paper for 19 years and is now back in the top position.

 There will be some slight changes with regard to design and layout, but the work and coverage will be done by many of the same people who have done it for years.

 The biggest new advancement of his company will be the active daily online news sites for each county and the region-wide daily online newspaper kicking off in late October. His daughter, Reagan Jobe, will be the publisher for this operation.

 Jobe said, “I am so excited to have the next generation of new ideas being realized by our company and being able to make available to existing subscribers for free.”

 Delivery is so very important, and this is why the OCTN will have an earlier deadline to get to homes earlier.

 Printing 40,000 paid copies and assuring on-time delivery requires coordination. This earlier deadline helps us honor delivery for Butler, Edmonson, and Ohio counties out in front of their other six newspapers.

 Jobe said he is looking forward to continuing the relationship with Josh White and his radio staff and even sharing several employees. Hilda Webb and JoAnne Thomas will be right in the middle of things as always, helping customers, listeners, and subscribers navigate their news, advertising, and printing needs.