Garyc Valik News Today

WATERTOWN — Gary C. Valik, vice president of Johnson Newspaper Corp., has been named chief executive officer, effective with the new year.

WATERTOWN — While deemed essential businesses in the early days of the pandemic last March, newspapers nationwide took significant financial hits in 2020 as their staffs worked tirelessly to report on the pandemic and its effect on communities. The Watertown Daily Times was not immune, but the locally owned newspaper fared better than many others owned by publicly traded companies, many of which laid off reporting staffs and others closed entirely. Advertising revenue in each month of 2020...