June 2019 Inlander

In this issue

• In hub for startups, this conference aims to super-charge revenue generation

  Once identified with the slackers portrayed in Richard Linklater movies like “Dazed and Confused,” Austin, Texas, these days is better known for the high-tech startups, incubators and venture …

• Working rapidly towards our merger with SNPA

  I want to begin this month’s column with an update on discussions with the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association about a potential merger of our two associations. Teams from Inland and SNPA …

• Bold new business models to be featured at inland, SNPA Joint Annual Meeting

  Last month, Walter E. Hussman Jr. wrote an extraordinary letter to subscribers of his WEHCO Media flagship Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. After decades as a reliable profit-maker, the paper was losing …

• The Wilson Times, Daily Record forge partnership in N.C.

  The Daily Record and The Wilson Times, North Carolina’s last two family-owned daily newspapers, have forged a strategic partnership and formed a media management company, allowing them to share …

• Quincy Herald-Whig parent buys Hannibal Courier-Post from GateHouse Media

  Family-owned Quincy Media Inc. has agreed to acquire the Hannibal (MO) Courier-Post.

• Stafford family sells Greenville Daily News to Michigan community newspaper group

  The Stafford family is selling the Greenville (Michigan) Daily News and Stafford Printing to Rick Burrough’s View Newspaper Group and Michigan Web Press. Dirks, Van Essen, Murray & April, a …

• Wick Communications acquires Colorado weekly

  Wick Communications has purchased the Delta County Independent, a 137-year-old weekly that serves Delta and Montrose counties in Colorado. Wick, a third-generation family-owned media company, …

• Bankruptcy court greenlights Reading Eagle sale to MediaNews Group

  The sale of the 37,000-circulation Reading Eagle to MediaNews Group has been approved by a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge in Pennsylvania.

• From family ownership to family ownership: Forum Communications buys Rochester Post Bulletin

  Marcil family-owned Forum Communications is buying the Rochester (Minnesota) Post Bulletin from family-owned Small Newspaper Group.

• Southern Newspapers sells Alabama paper to its former managing editor

  Patrick Graham, who previously served as the managing editor of the Times-Journal from 1996 to 2000, has bought the Fort Payne, Alabama newspaper.

• Second Street expands audience development portfolio with purchase of Niche Media

  Second Street, the provider of private-label online audience engagement platforms, has bought Niche Media, which runs events aimed at helping niche publishers generate new and additional …

• Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s pitch to subscribers: To save the paper, give up paper

  Here’s the text of the letter from WEHCO CEO and Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter E. Hussman Jr. to subscribers, urging them to switch their subscriptions to print delivery to digital …

• Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s pitch to subscribers: To save the paper, give up paper

  Here’s the text of the letter from WEHCO CEO and Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter E. Hussman Jr. to subscribers...

• Meet the speakers at Mission One: Revenue

  Phillip Beswick is CEO The Research Department LLC, which includes Consumer Research Around Cannabis and The Media Audit, a media and marketing research company that helps media in more than 90 U.S. …

• Inland members: Google may have funding for your innovations

  Google News Initiatives is bringing its Innovation Challenge to North America, inviting news organizations to submit projects for funding.

• Paxton Media Group expands in Indiana with purchase of Wilson family’s Rochester Sentinel

  The Rochester (Indiana) Sentinel has been purchased by Paxton Media Group from owner and Publisher Sarah O. Wilson.