July 2019 Inlander

In this issue

• Newspapers Get a New and Powerful Champion

  As you can read elsewhere in this issue of The Inlander, the memberships of both Inland and the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association have approved the merger of these two proud …

• A new era as Inland and SNPA members approve merger

  Inland members overwhelmingly approved a proposed merger with the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. Nearly 1,000 of Inland’s 1,100 members cast ballots in favor of the merger. The …

• GateHouse launches national investigative team to aid local newspaper enterprise reporting

  In what it called “a powerful investment in journalism,” GateHouse Media announced it is creating a national investigative and data-driven reporting team of more than 30 editors and reporters who …

• Paxton Media Group buys Log Cabin Democrat in Arkansas from GateHouse

  In a transaction with GateHouse Media, Paxton Media Group has bought the Log Cabin Democrat, a daily newspaper in Conway, Arkansas, along with three Arkansas weeklies in Clinton, Heber Springs and …

• With license sale, Reading Eagle Company sheds last of its media properties

  With the agreement to sell its WEEU 830 AM license to Twilight Broadcasting, the Reading Eagle Company sold its sole remaining media operation. Reading Eagle Company filed for Chapter 11 …

• Inland and SNPA: A combined 250 years of service to the newspaper industry

  In 1885, small newspaper publishers had a problem. Just as trusts were monopolizing steel, copper, ship building and other industries, newsprint trusts were hurting smaller newspapers. The …

• A view from the (Willis) Tower: Executive Voices returns for high-level industry analysis

  Executive Voices, Inland’s unique, executives-only, newspaper exclusive discussion event returns to Willis Tower in Chicago December 11 and 12 with a new format for the networking event the …

• A program of renaissance for a newly merged association’s annual meeting

  When retired judge Frederic Rutberg and three other investors bought The Berkshire Eagle in western Massachusetts and three sister dailies in Vermont, he set what seemed like an audacious goal for …

• Questions about the Inland/SNPA merger?

  If you have questions about the merger of the Inland Press Associations and the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association, I invite you to email or call me. Tom Slaughter, Inland executive director …

• Adams Publishing Group buys Beloit Daily News from Hagadone

  Adams Publishing Group has acquired The Greater Beloit Publishing Company

• LNP commits to print—and later news deadlines—as state-of-the-art press comes online

  LNP, the daily newspaper serving Lancaster, Pennsylvania, started up its new state-of-the-art press to gain more control of its print products...

• A ‘search’ for fairness: How Google generates unshared billions from news publishers’ journalism

  The American public consumes more news than ever, with more than 200 million unique visitors consuming digital news each month. However, the economics of that consumption will not sustain the …

• After five generations of ownership, Bliss family leaves newspaper and radio business

  In a family-to-family transaction, Bliss Communications is selling its newspapers to Adams Publishing Group.

• Paxton Media Group buys Sandusky Newspaper properties in Tennessee, Michigan

  Paxton Media Group expanded its already extensive newspaper portfolio with the acquisition of two dailies and affiliated community papers from Sandusky Newspapers Inc.