Genesee Sun

GeneseeSun.com Celebrates Its First Birthday

LIVINGSTON COUNTY — This Valentine’s Day, GeneseeSun.com celebrated its first year of being online.

In its first year of strictly online operations, the GeneseeSun.com experienced remarkable growth as other local news and print publications continued to shrink in content and circulation.

"It's been a tremendous year for us," said publisher Josh Williams. "We have tons of improvements to make and are only going to deliver a better product with more local content in the years to come. I am proud and grateful for everyone's work and support."

GeneseeSun.com, using social media and a nifty vehicle wrap, has generated over 5 million hits from 196,000 visitors. This number means that local readers are coming back to GeneseeSun.com for local news on a regular basis. Additionally, the site has had over 12,000 video views of unique local content.

"I saw two massive gaps in local content here in Livingston County: timely news and a lack of courtroom coverage," said Williams. "It's not fair to run blotters and walk away from the story. It's not fair to the victims of crimes or to those that are found innocent. It's also ridiculous to wait a week for your information in this day and age.”

GeneseeSun.com has also partnered with two other media organizations, WYSL 1040 AM and the Mount Morris Shopper, in an effort to deliver a well rounded product.

"I have a tremendous amount of respect for the competition and wish them the best as they try to adapt to the technologies," said Williams. "I have even more respect and appreciation for those businesses that advertise with us. Without their support, people would still be waiting a week for their news to be delivered on a scroll."