Scherer Publishing, owned by Bob and Mandy Scherer of Martin, South Dakota, is buying the Hot Springs Star (South Dakota) from Lee Enterprises. It will be merged with the Fall River County Herald, starting with the Dec. 12 edition of the Fall River County Herald Star, the Herald reported. Th…
Jill Friesz, owner of the Grant County News and Carson Press in North Dakota, has bought two papers in the state that were set to close, Forum News Service reported.
The News Media Alliance will host its next adXchange event Feb. 24¬–25 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. AdXchange offers a cost-and-time-saving opportunity for News Media Alliance news publisher members to have private one-on-one meetings with advertisers and agencies…
2019 was good for public notice for the newspaper industry, according to the Public Notice Resource Center.
Estonian print company Kroonpress has equipped its Goss M600 heatset press with Q.I. Press Controls (QIPC) press automation. Kroonpress is preparing the recently acquired press for the future and wants to keep the M600 in use for another 10 years, QIPC says.
TEN Publishing is closing 19 of its 22 automotive magazines by the end of 2019, Folio: reported, citing a memo sent to staff by MotorTrend Group president and GM Alex Wellen.
The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington) is pouring a new concrete press pad in preparation for a 32-unit Goss SSC Magnum pressline to be installed by imPRESSions Worldwide.
On Dec. 3, The Washington Post launched the first episode of “El Washington Post,” a Spanish-language podcast.
Chicago-based Tensor International, in cooperation with Simon Munday at National Printing Equipment of Australia, has been awarded a contract to add a new H-50 folder with quarter folder to the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier’s existing 18-unit T1400 press. Tensor will also be responsible for …
TownNews is prepping iQ Audience+, an audience acquisition and retention platform that enables publishers, broadcasters and digital-native media organizations to tailor their conversion funnels using machine learning and proven industry best practices, the company says.
A slew of layoffs hit post-merger Gannett papers last week, Poynter and others reported.
The free OC Weekly, a paper covering Orange County and Long Beach, has ceased production.
The Dallas Morning News has launched a digital-only evening edition, created using PageSuite’s Edition solution.
DMGT, owner of the U.K.’s Daily Mail, has bought the i newspaper and website from JPI Media for £49.6 million cash consideration (around $63 million). The i has retail sales of approximately 170,000 papers each weekday and over 190,000 copies of the iweekend each Saturday.
Report for America announced will field 250 emerging journalists in 164 host news organizations to serve local communities across 46 states in the coming year, the organization announced Dec. 2. This is more than four times the size of the 2019 class, who have been reporting in some 50 local…
Pew Research has provided a glimpse of the state of newsroom employment in the U.S., providing nine charts in its Factank feature.
Twipe Digital Publishing, a Belgian provider of digital publishing solutions for newspapers, announced that they have partnered with Luxemburger Wort to distribute and monetize the digital version of the newspaper. This week, the paper officially launched new Replica + NextGen apps on iOS, A…
Three official county newspapers in North Dakota published their final issues Nov. 29, the papers reported.
Media companies in the U.K. are battling against a number of “fake newspapers” put out by political parties, HoldtheFrontPage reported.
The Dayton Daily News and two other Ohio papers are going to three days a week from daily print to please regulators who have approved a $3.1 billion buy of Cox TV stations and papers by Apollo Global Management, the New York Post reported.
GateHouse parent New Media Investment Group has completed its $1.2 billion cash-and-stock buy of Gannett, the companies announced Nov. 19. The combined company has adopted the name Gannett Co. and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker GCI.
The Association for Print Technologies (APTech) will offer an association health plan to its members, extending health care to small and medium-sized manufacturing companies in approved states, the organization announced. In states where the association health plan is not available, APTech w…
The Echo Journal building in Pequot Lakes, Minnesota, will be for sale, according to the paper.
New York state-based Capital Region Independent Media has acquired Manchester Newspapers (Granville, New York) and all associated digital and print products, according to John Thomas Cribb of merger and acquisition firm Cribb, Greene & Cope, who represented the Manchester family in the sale.
VoicePort, a provider of customer service communication solutions for publishers, has announced a new product to help circulation professionals reduce costs and save time with results in real time: Analytics.
The Toronto Star will cease to produce print editions of its StarMetro commuter newspapers in five Canadian cities, the paper announced. The final editions will be out Dec. 20. Seventy-three jobs will be lost, the CBC reported.
Momentum Events will once again host The Print Event, in partnership with the Association for PRINT Technologies (APTech). The second annual event will be held at the Lumber Exchange in Minneapolis Aug. 4-5, 2020, and will “unite the most creative thinkers in marketing to explore the newest …
Q.I. Press Controls (QIPC), the Dutch specialist for measurement and control systems for the printing industry, has supplied Swiss printing company Centre d’Impression Lausanne, part of the Tamedia group, with an image-based cut-off control system that will continue to be supported in the co…
Funds managed by New York-based hedge fund Alden Global Capital have bought more than nine million shares, or 25.2 percent, of Tribune Publishing Company from Merrick Ventures and Michael Ferro for $13 per share. As a result of the purchase, Alden is now the company's largest shareholder. Fe…
Hearst Magazines’ editorial, video, design, photo and social staff across 24 brands is moving to unionize with the Writers Guild of America, East, AFL-CIO. The brands are Best Products, Bicycling, Car and Driver, Cosmopolitan, Country Living, Delish, Elle, Elle Decor, Esquire, Good Housekeep…
Flint Group will raise prices on offset inks in Europe, the company announced. Increase amounts vary depending on product lines and technologies based on the raw materials make-up, the company said. The specific increases will be communicated by Flint Group’s sales leadership teams.
McClatchy intends to drop Saturday print in all its markets in 2020, its CEO said. The chain will continue to publish digitally on Saturdays.
Tribune Publishing will stop producing Hoy, its Spanish-language newspaper, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Ogden Newspapers will roll out the full suite of My News 360 services to three Ohio newspapers in Tiffin, Sandusky, and Norwalk, according to software developer Presteligence.
Ogden Newspapers will buy The Courier of Findlay and the Review Times of Fostoria (both in Ohio) from Findlay Publishing, according to Jeffrey Potts of Cribb, Greene & Cope, who represents the Heminger family and Findlay Publishing.
Resolute Forest Products announced that it’s “indefinitely idling” its Augusta, Georgia, newsprint plant, the Augusta Chronicle reported.
Yappa World has announced that American Media, publisher of celebrity and entertainment journalism, has installed the Yappa tool onto two of their celebrity news websites, Star Magazine Online and Life & Style Online.
After 43 years as owners of the Ransom County Gazette in Lisbon, North Dakota, Sean and Cheryl Kelly announced on Nov. 1 that they have sold the publication to NorDak Publishing.
The Salt Lake Tribune has become a nonprofit, the paper has announced.The IRS approved the nonprofit status in a late October letter, declaring The Tribune a 501(c)(3) public charity. The publication can now accept tax-deductible donations.The push to become a nonprofit was driven by TThe Sa…
Stuart Web has made another investment in their printing operation and will be adding three 22” cut-off DGM 430 towers to their existing press.
