The family-owned Small Newspaper Group recently sold its Dispatch·Argus newspaper in Moline, Illinois, to Lee Enterprises. With the sale, its publisher, Jerry Taylor, retired after 40 years at the paper. Columnist John Marx wrote this tribute to Taylor, reprinted here with permission
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By John Marx
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7/14/17
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So what is it you do,
Francis Wick?
I’m the president and CEO of Wick Communications, named in February 2016, and I’ve been a board member since 2007.
Tell us about the Wick family …
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2/23/18
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8/22/18
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Tyler Buchanan, who has been editor of The Vinton County (Ohio) Courier since 2015, was named editor of its sister paper, The Athens Messenger.
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7/14/17
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After experimenting with the structure in the Midwest and South, Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. is going all-in on a system of regional editors.
CNHI announced the expanded news leadership …
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2/23/18
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William F. (Bill) Skemp—a paperboy for the Telegraph Herald in Dubuque, Iowa, who retired after a six-decade career as chairman and CEO of parent Woodward Communications Inc.—died July 28, 2018 …
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8/22/18
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Ashley Peterson is Cox Media Group’s new senior director of human resources at the company’s headquarters in Atlanta, Ga. In this role, Peterson supports all of CMG’s corporate client areas, in addition to Rare and CMG’s Washington D.C. News Bureau.
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7/14/17
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Lee Enterprises has sold its newspaper and digital media operations in Maysville, Kentucky to Champion Media LLC, including The Ledger Independent and maysville-online.com.
Randy Cope of Cribb, …
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2/23/18
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First, let me begin by welcoming you to Chicago and the 133rd Inland Annual Meeting. We have an outstanding program awaiting you.
As I reflect on this last year as president of your association, I …
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8/22/18
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The Markham family has sold the Antelope Valley Press in Palmdale, California, and its companion publications to Antelope Valley Press Inc., a corporation headed by veteran newspaper publisher Steven Malkowich.
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7/14/17
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Paxton Media Group has bought The Daily Herald of Roanoke Rapids, N.C., from Wick Communications.
Dirks, Van Essen & Murray, a media merger and acquisition firm based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, …
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2/23/18
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After last year holding an Annual Meeting outside of Chicago for the first time in 132 years, Inland’s most important gathering returns to the city of its founding with a program reflecting its …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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8/22/18
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Family-owned Small Newspaper Group is selling the assets of its Illinois-side Quad-Cities daily, The Dispatch-Argus to Lee Enterprises, publisher of the Quad City Times in Davenport, Iowa.
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7/14/17
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I’ve told you much over my last several columns about the strong program lineup for this year’s Key Executives Mega-Conference.
But, do you know why I’ve mentioned it so much? It’s because …
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Tom Yunt
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2/23/18
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In April, Calkins Media sold all its broadcast television assets. On June 19, the family-owned company agreed to sell its newspaper assets, exiting the business after nearly eight decades as publishers.
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7/14/17
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This year’s Mega-Conference offers an unprecedented number of options for executives who make their way to San Diego—48 separate sessions including the Solutions Stage …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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2/23/18
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Here’s a statement on the unanimous decision from STOPP:
Stop Tariffs on Printers & Publishers (STOPP), a coalition of printers, publishers, retailers, paper suppliers and distributors, today …
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8/29/18
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There’s a good reason “the” is all caps in the name of THE Revenue Conference, says Mike Blinder, whose The Blinder Group is co-sponsoring the April 26 and 27 meeting with Inland.
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3/7/17
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Aaron Becher—who had been general manager of The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead and West Fargo Pioneer since 2012 and became director of advertising operations for parent Forum Communications earlier this …
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8/29/18
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Mega quotes and boxes march 2017 inlander
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3/6/17
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Major enhancements are coming to Publisher Benchmarks that dramatically reduce the time and effort required to enter data-while providing the comparisons, metrics and performance insights that makes …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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7/14/17
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Publisher J. Louis Mullen has bought three South Dakota weeklies—the Mobridge Tribune, Potter County News in Gettysburg and the West River Eagle in Eagle Butte—from long-time owners Larry and Roberta Atkinson of Mobridge.
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4/12/19
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With responsibilities extending throughout a media organization and often into multiple properties, it can seem that being a human resources manager means the job is never done. Inland’s Human …
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3/6/17
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An apparent malware attack at a GateHouse Media production facility in Daytona, Florida halted the printing and delivery of several Florida newspapers in early April.
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4/17/19
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Legislators in literally half of the United States began the new year by introducing more than 60 bills relating to public notices—many of which would have the effect of taking public notices …
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3/6/17
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