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ABOUT US Owners John and Jennifer Garrett launched Community Impact 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 35-plus localized editions across Texas to more than 2.5 million residential mailboxes. MARKET TEAM GENERAL MANAGER Heather Demere EDITOR Eric Weilbacher REPORTER Zara Flores SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER Rachal Elliott ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Adrian Martinez METRO LEADERSHIP PUBLISHER Travis Baker MANAGING EDITOR Wendy Sturges COPY EDITOR Andy Comer ART PRODUCTION MANAGER Lindsay Scott CONTACT US 16225 Impact Way, Ste. 1, P ugerville, TX 78660 • 512 989 6808 CI CAREERS communityimpact.com/careers PRESS RELEASES sbknews@communityimpact.com ADVERTISING sbkads@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
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FROM TRAVIS: After our October edition of the San Marcos, Buda and Kyle paper was delivered to homes, we received several calls and emails about an advertisement that covered part of the front-page story. We appreciate hearing from readers and the advertiser in this case, and we understand the concern. The “sticky note” advertisement is an option o ered by our newspapers and many others. As we print the paper, the advertisement is placed on the covers by machine in the same spot whenever an advertiser purchases a sticky note. Some readers asked if this was our endorsement of the candidate. It was not. Community Impact does not endorse candidates, and the sticky note had the mandatory "paid for by" language as required by the Texas Ethics Commission. Others felt it was insensitive to have an advertisement on the front with the story. While our editorial and advertising departments work collaboratively, we write stories we feel are best for our readers without determining which advertisers will be on the page. With that said, we will have discussions as we plan stories for sensitive topics in our newspapers with the goal to always do better. Thank you for being a reader, an advertiser and a partner in these great communities. We will never take that for granted. Travis Baker, PUBLISHER
WE ARE THANKFUL FOR YOU THIS NOVEMBER Each year at this time, we launch our annual Community Impact Giving Campaign. It's an opportunity for our print and digital readers and podcast subscribers to learn more about our journalists and values behind the scenes. We hope once you do, you'll become a CI Patron by giving any one-time or monthly amount. Feel good knowing you're supporting our mission to provide trusted news and local information that everyone gets.
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