ms. bertetto. thank you. >> chairwoman klobuchar, ranking member lee, and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to participate in today's hearing. my name is jennifer bertetto and i'm the president and ceo of trib total media. we are a small publisher that delivers news, information and advertising to four county in southwest -- southwestern pennsylvania. our company is 272 employees strong with a daily and weekly newspaper situation and hyper local commander websites that comprise our neighborhood news network. our newsroom as a collective of 88 journalists, photojournalist, editors and designers. our high quality and award-winning journalism is why our flagship website tree of life.com draws more than 300 300 million views view. our company was transformed in 1970 when richard mellon scaife purchase our local publishing company. we have remained focused on providing local news to our communities but with the rise of the internet we recognize we need to shift our focus from pr

ms. bertetto and mr. oxidantsly same question to you. >> neyeah, i certainly want to respond to that.ause i think what's at risk here is local news. that's what's really at risk. the huge news operations, yes, they will be justd fine. but when you talk about local news, local news is in a lot of trouble. whether it's broadcast or print. and i have experienced it even in watching the d.c. area, there is not a viable economic model that i have ever seen for local news to bear all digital.oo it just doesn't work. the money is not there. and so that's very distressing. and over time i think while -- are we too late? no, i don't think we're too late. but getting close. we might be in the 11th hour because it's getting there. this is getting very dire. and i look at it, you know, we're also a platform too. we're aggregators. and we're good with that. and we understand that. and we're a platform that pays for the news content. i don't think the associated press would like it very much if all of a sudden we didn't fay for their content. and in many respects i think that's what'sf happening he

ms. bertetto. thank you. >> chairwoman klobuchar, ranking member lee, and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to participate in today's hearing. my name is jennifer bertetto and i'm the president and ceo of trib total media. we are a small publisher that delivers news, information and advertising to four county in southwest -- southwestern pennsylvania. our company is 272 employees strong with a daily and weekly newspaper situation and hyper local commander websites that comprise our neighborhood news network. our newsroom as a collective of 88 journalists, photojournalist, editors and designers. our high quality and award-winning journalism is why our flagship website tree of life.com draws more than 300 300 million views view. our company was transformed in 1970 when richard mellon scaife purchase our local publishing company. we have remained focused on providing local news to our communities but with the rise of the internet we recognize we need to shift our focus from pr