Chico News & Review F.A.Q.
Now that the paper’s online-only, how will I know what’s going on this weekend? The CN&R calendar is right here. There has always been a digital version, and in fact, the CN&R’s local calendar of […]
Chico News & Review
A brief history of the Chico News & Review
The rebel years: 1977-1980 No matter how much time passes, when the story of the Chico News & Review is told, it’s the first four years of the paper’s history that typically gets the most […]
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CN&R staffers and contributors—past and present—say goodbye to the print version
This newspaper has been in print since 1977, and if you have this issue in your hands, you are holding the final edition of the Chico News & Review. As a 20-year veteran in the […]
Opinions
Editor’s Note: End note
After the COVID-19 pandemic wiped out advertising and forced a temporary cessation of print publication in March of 2020, the Chico News & Review came back to print that July. For three-and-a-half years the newspaper […]
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Final print CN&R out Jan. 11
The Chico News & Review is ceasing print publication. Before the paper goes online-only, there will be one last special edition, featuring editors, writers and others from the CN&R family—from across its 46-year history—sharing their […]
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CN&R to cease print publication; shift focus to digital
Dear readers, It is with a heavy heart that I share that the Chico News & Review will publish its last print issue on Jan. 11, 2024. It will mark the end of an era. […]
Opinions
Editor’s note: Hire date: July 3, 2003
I don’t think my first day of employment as recorded by the Chico News & Review is correct, but I’m certain about the first story I wrote for the paper. It was an interview with […]
Opinions
Editor’s note: New year’s update
For this first issue of the Chico News & Review for 2022, I had hopes of sharing good news of a holiday boon and a return to normal for our county and this newspaper, but […]
Arts & Culture
Arts DEVO: Change
Under the shade of a plum tree sits a long wooden table with laptops and paper notebooks strewn about its weathered cedar planks. This is the bird’s-eye view of the Chico News & Review’s pandemic-era […]
Opinions
Second & Flume: Commitment
Each year at around this time, I write about the awards the CN&R picks up in the annual journalism competition put on by the California News Publishers’ Association. I give a rundown in Second & […]
Opinions
Second & Flume: Hope
The rain was the perfect company as I sat down on the eve of the one-year anniversary of California’s coronavirus lockdown. Not coincidentally, March 19, 2020, was also the day that the CN&R closed its […]
Arts & Culture
Arts DEVO: Let’s all spring forward, please!
I am hopeful that the News & Review will find a way—Arts DEVO, March 19, 2020 It has been one year since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak as a global pandemic (March […]
Second & Flume
Second & Flume: Catching up
It’s impossible to fit everything I’d like to say into this space after what has taken place during our more than three-month print hiatus. I’ll start with how much I’ve missed having this weekly conversation […]