KERA News acquires Texas community newspaper
The following excerpt was sent out from keranews.org, an NPR outlet in North Texas: KERA has officially acquired The Denton Record-Chronicle, Denton County’s primary source of local news. As part of the acquisition through a wholly owned LLC subsidiary, the newspaper has converted to a nonprofit, within the KERA ecosystem, which also includes KERA TV, KERA News, KXT 91.7, […]
News Media Corp. sells Colorado papers
The following excerpt was sent out from Editor & Publisher: News Media Corporation has sold its Colorado cluster of newspapers to Louie Mullen. The sale included Valley Courier daily in Alamosa, Monte Vista Journal, The Del Norte Prospector, The Conejos County Citizen, Center Post-Dispatch, The Mineral County Miner, The South Fork Times and SLV Lifestyles. […]
Utah’s Daily Herald turns 150
The following excerpt was sent out from heraldextra.com: It is not often a newspaper, or any business for that matter, can celebrate 150 years of consecutive service to its community, but now the Daily Herald can. “Through all the diversity that newspapers have gone through over the past years, the Daily Herald has continued to […]
Oregonian to stop printing every day
The following excerpt was sent out from wweek.com: The Oregonian plans to stop printing a newspaper three days a week, reducing its editions to Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays—and leaving Portland without a daily paper for the first time in more than a century. The shrinking newspaper—which has run in print daily since 1881—will scrap its Monday, […]
Utah paper dating to 19th Century takes nonprofit route
The following excerpt was sent out from moabtimes.com: The Times-Independent, which has published in the Grand County community continuously for 127 years, will transition to nonprofit later this year — with The Salt Lake Tribune, which has been a community-owned nonprofit since 2019. In a letter to readers, printed in the Moab paper’s Thursday edition, […]
Montana paper switches to a three-day format
The following excerpt was sent out from missoulian.com: In an effort to preserve and enhance local news coverage, the print edition of the Missoulian will move to a three-day publication schedule starting July 11. As more of the news-reading audience has moved to digital formats, Missoulian reporters will continue to cover western Montana seven days […]
Minnesota paper revamps, introduces three new sections
The following excerpt was sent out from lacrossetribune.com: Greetings, readers, and welcome to your new Winona Daily News. As your news consumption habits change, we’re always looking for ways to improve our products and provide the most engaging local news report. You’ve told us you value the type of deeply reported local news that you […]
Sun Gazette acquires Fresno County paper
The following excerpt was sent out from thesungazette.com: Mineral King Publishing, parent company for The Sun-Gazette newspaper, inked a deal in mid-March that grew their business by three times and simultaneously expanded their reach into Fresno County. The purchase was effective as of May 1, but the deal has been a year in the making. […]
Maine Journalism Foundation forms to buy papers, save local journalism
The following excerpt was sent out spectrumlocalnews.com: A newly formed nonprofit group headed by a longtime Maine journalist wants to buy most of the newspapers in the state. Members of the group, Maine Journalism Foundation, said Monday they hope to buy Masthead Maine, which owns the Portland Press Herald, the state’s largest daily newspaper, and […]
Pennsylvania radio station join forces with LancasterOnline / LNP
The following excerpt was sent out from witf.org: Two of central Pennsylvania’s largest media organizations are joining forces as WITF and LancasterOnline/LNP create a new model for local news and engagement. The Steinman family, which has helmed the Lancaster newspaper for nearly 158 years, is gifting nearly its entire operation to WITF, creating a single, […]
