The (Easton) Express-Times, Sept. 22

Express-Times shifting bureaus

The Express-Times has begun reorganizing its bureaus, a process expected to be finished by December.

More than 20 employees will relocate to new offices during the transition.

The newspaper is moving 12 advertising employees, now working at satellite offices in Bethlehem and Nazareth, into its Easton headquarters.

In turn, reporters and editors at the newspaper's existing Bethlehem bureau on 531 Main St. will move to a first-floor office at 35 E. Elizabeth Ave.

The company has signed a five-year lease for the new site, near Moravian College’s football stadium, The Express-Times President and Publisher Martin Till said.

"We’re doing it for two reasons," Till said. "The Bethlehem office we have now is bigger than we need, and we need more visibility. The new office gives us that."

The change will also streamline the newspaper's advertising staff, most of whom will now work out of the main office at 30 N. Fourth St. in Easton. The company is renovating space in its Easton building to accommodate the switch, Till said.

In addition, staff at the newspaper's Wind Gap bureau will relocate to the company's Nazareth office on South Main Street. That includes two reporters covering the Nazareth and Slate Belt areas, and an employee working on the newspaper's US publication.

The newspaper's Wind Gap office on West First Street will be vacated when transitions are complete, Till said.

The Express-Times, owned by Penn Jersey Advance Inc., employs about 360 people.

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