I’ve been working for The Paris News for nearly five years now, and in that time I’ve been blessed to meet hundreds of wonderful people in the Northeast Texas area.
Each November, new and renewing subscribers who choose a one-year plan will find, along with all the community news, photos and magazines, a coupon for a 10- to 12-pound Grade
During the past year, thereâs been shortage of requests for information concerning the Covid-19 pandemic. When the virus first started spreading in area nursing homes, people wanted to know which ones, how many cases and what was being done. People also wanted to know which businesses had employees who tested positive for Covid-19. And now that vaccines are available, The Paris News gets regular phone calls and emails wanting to know where they are, how many doses are coming and why reporters arenât covering the vaccination clinics each week.
The Paris News has provided all the information it legally can. Despite TV and film depictions of journalists getting the story no matter what, there are legal lines the newspaper will not cross to get a story. One of those lines is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, passed in August 1996.
A researchers quest led her to The Paris News, where one reporter in the 1930s stood up to defend the rights of a Black football player, Lou Montgomery, who was