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EO Media Group officially became the owner of The Observer in La Grande and the Baker City Herald after a bankruptcy court approved their bid for the two eastern Oregon tri-weeklies formerly owned by …
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8/1/19
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Jones Media, a fourth-generation family-owned newspaper publisher, sold its assets to Adams Publishing Group, another family-owned publisher headed by Steve Adams. Financial terms of the sale were …
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10/18/16
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Think of Executive Voices, convening December 6 and 7 in Chicago, as a brainstorming session—super-sized.
Executive Voices is no ordinary industry conference. In fact, it’s not really …
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10/31/17
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In a transaction between two family-owned publishers with a recent history of acquisitions, Wick Communications has bought The Fergus Falls (Minnesota) Daily Journal from Boone Newspapers …
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8/1/19
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Ogden Newspapers has purchased two Ohio dailies from Sandusky Newspapers Inc., the namesake Sandusky Register, which the family-owned company had operated since 1869, and the Norwalk Reflector. …
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8/1/19
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Family-owned Paxton Media Group has purchased three Midwestern papers from Brehm Communications, the Princeton (Ind.) Daily Clarion, the Mount Carmel (Ill.) Register and The Standard in Booneville, …
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10/18/16
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EO Media Group won the contested auction for Western Communication’s flagship Bend Bulletin and the weekly Redmond Spokesman.
The sale of the 17,000-circulation daily Bulletin and the …
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8/1/19
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The Pioneer News Group, in cooperation with Microsoft Corp. and Posh Technologies, has launched an innovative new initiative increasing subscribers’ access to news—and puts the power of …
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10/19/16
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Like many newspaper people, Andrew McFadden was plenty cheesed off when the U.S. Postal Service announced its Negotiated Service Agreement with the big direct mailer Valassis Communications had won regulatory approval. The discount postage deal …
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3/28/13
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Schurz Communications has bought the Watertown (S.D.) Public Opinion from United Communications Corp.
Schurz also owns the American News and Farm Forum in Aberdeen, S.D.
Terms of the …
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10/18/16
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After hosting Inland Annual Meetings for more than a century, Chicago will be the first meeting site of the new association formed by the merger of Inland and the Southern Newspaper Publishers …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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8/1/19
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Barraged by advertising sales reps—calling an average of nearly 24 times a month — local businesses are shifting their marketing money away from traditional media and into their own web sites and social media …
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10/18/16
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At the recent Graph Expo 2016 printing industry show, ProImage launched its new generation of workflow—NewsWay-X.
This latest newspaper workflow by ProImage features a single, …
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10/18/16
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Jane Katona, who had been advertising director of the Daytona Beach (Florida) News-Journal has been named the GateHouse Media newspaper’s general manager.
She will continue to oversee the sales …
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12/28/18
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AMG/Parade has named Dave Barber executive vice president of the company’s Newspaper Relations Group.
Barber most recently served as a consultant for AMG/Parade. He had worked for Parade and …
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10/18/16
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For newspapers in markets big and small, the secret is out on the revenue potential of staging events.
But few newspapers are turning their events into reliable moneymakers like the Pittsburgh …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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12/28/18
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So Jason Taylor, what is it you do?
I’m the president of New Media Investment Group Ventures. My sole focus is on the future revenue streams of the company, (the parent of GateHouse Media) and …
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12/28/18
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Rick Welch, publisher of The Messenger in Madisonville, Kentucky, has been named group publisher of Paxton Media Group’s Northwest Kentucky Newspaper Group.
The group includes The Messenger, the …
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12/28/18
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Forms for the 2019 Newspaper Industry Compensation Survey are coming soon.
Start 2019 by putting the power of NICS on your side. With its extensive data on pay and compensation for dozens of …
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12/28/18
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Family-owned Adams Publishing Group—which in the past few years has grown to operate 30 daily newspapers, more than 100 non-dailies, and other media enterprises located in 20 states—expanded its …
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12/28/18
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I can’t think of a better way to close out 2018 than with the outstanding Executive Voices 2.0 in Chicago last month. For those of us who were fortunate to attend, this conference will truly be the …
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By Doug Phares
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12/28/18
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Newspaper industry leaders flock to the Key Executives Mega-Conference every year for going on nine years for the wealth of actionable ideas and strategies they can immediately turn into growth …
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12/28/18
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After 57 years of ownership, Webb family sells Mississippi newspaper to Wayne County News publishers
The Webb family has sold the Franklin Advocate, a weekly in Meadville, Mississippi to Paul and Doris Keane, the owners of the weekly Wayne County News in Waynesboro, Mississippi.
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8/15/19
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Newspaper properties are selling at a rate you’d expect to see before the 2008 crash in values, and selling to a diverse crowd of buyers.
But brokers report that this relatively high level of …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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12/6/17
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