"The Conservative Voice of Ferris is going to be popular, judging by just the Ferris stories I've published on The Ellis County Observer," Dauben said, referring to his blog that he also plans to turn into a newspaper. "We're marching in these small towns and will publish what the powers that be don't want published, and I believe there's a market big enough for that type of content, in fact, I know there is. The demand for this paper in Ferris has been stronger than my more-established papers."
Dauben plans to turn the bulk of the news gathering duties over to Editor Shay Tabor, the first time Freedom of the Press Group has named an editor for one of its 18 papers.
"It won't be the last editor I appoint, because my Midlothian paper will belong to Sarah Scott and the Waxahachie paper will be under the direction and guidance of Brannon Bridge," Dauben said. "We'll be appointing Brandy L. Owen the editor of the Rice paper, as well, with more team members being locked into place."
