Hattiesburg goes morning…
Well, kind of later morning. The paper began a new distribution cycle in May, bumping up its press time to no later than 5 a.m., putting it on the streets by 7. Publisher Skippy Haik explains readers have asked for the paper earlier in the day, and said the move would accommodate the print schedule of the USA Today, a sister Gannett publication that prints regionally in Hattiesburg.