ANNOUNCEMENTS
ABOUT US Owners John and Jennifer Garrett launched Community Impact Newspaper in 2005, and the company is still locally owned today. We have expanded to include hundreds of team members and have created our own software platform and printing facility. CI delivers 30 localized editions across Texas to more than 2.4 million residential mailboxes. MARKET TEAM GENERAL MANAGER Cathy Williams EDITOR Samantha Douty REPORTERS Michael Crouchley, Destine Gibson SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER Michelle Degard ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Suzanne Lewis METRO LEADERSHIP PUBLISHER Christal Howard MANAGING EDITOR Wendy Sturges COPY EDITOR Beth Marshall ART PRODUCTION MANAGER Lindsay Scott CONTACT US 7460 Warren Parkway, Ste. 160, Frisco, TX 75034 • 214-618-9001 CI CAREERS communityimpact.com/careers PRESS RELEASES lconews@communityimpact.com ADVERTISING lcoads@communityimpact.com Learn more at communityimpact.com/advertising EMAIL NEWSLETTERS communityimpact.com/newsletter PODCAST communityimpact.com/podcast SUPPORT US Join your neighbors by giving to the CI Patron program. Funds support our journalistic mission to provide trusted, local news in your community. Learn more at communityimpact.com/cipatron
LOCAL COMMUNITY EXPANSION
FROM CATHY: At Community Impact we are driven by a belief that everyone deserves to know what’s going on in their community, and we feel strongly that news should be free of bias and delivered free to you. Our advertisers support that belief and over the past 17 years have made it possible for us to continue serving additional communities and to grow
our resources in the cities we already serve. That’s exactly the case with this October issue!
With this issue we are proud to announce additional staff dedicated to focusing on Lewisville coverage — see the latest development in Old Town on Page 18. We are also proud to announce our return to Coppell after a much-too-long pandemic pause! It’s truly an honor to now serve Lewisville and Coppell together in this expanded edition. We feel blessed to be able to grow our team, our coverage and even our brand (see below), while staying true to the core promise since day one: to provide useful, unbiased, hyperlocal coverage to all residents. Thank you to the local advertisers and readers who make this coverage possible! Cathy Williams, GENERAL MANAGER
COMPANY-WIDE REBRANDING
2005 Total mailboxes 60,000 1 Journalist
2015 Total mailboxes 1,495,000 40 Journalists
2022 Total mailboxes 2,450,000 75 Journalists
The CI Local Pin Incorporated into our main logo, the CI Local Pin symbolizes our focus on local and making an Impact in every community we serve.
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No longer just a newspaper company, Community Impact is rebranding to better align with one of its core values: innovation. Although many readers may know CI for its monthly, full-color print newspapers, the company is much more than just a printed newspaper. Since its inception in 2005 in the game room of John and Jennifer Garrett’s home in Round Rock, Texas, the company has lived up to its entrepreneurial roots, creating its own in-house customer relationship management software, building a printing plant, launching email newsletters and podcasts, and expanding its reach to four Texas metros and more than 2.4 million homes. To reflect its entire product line and continue to allow for future growth, the media company has changed its name from Community Impact Newspaper to Community Impact, along with updating its entire brand schematic, including the logo, colors, tagline, mission statement and vision statement. "Since 2005, Community Impact has been a trusted source for local news as we have built the largest community journalism news organization in Texas,” CEO and founder John Garrett said. “Our award-winning monthly newspaper and our innovative daily digital products will be the focus of the investment Jennifer and I are making in local news for—God willing—years to come. Our team is committed to helping all Texans we serve, regardless of your socioeconomic status or political affiliation, to get news you can trust to help you connect to your community." To read the entire announcement, scan the QR code to visit our website.
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