The Colorado Sun and the National Trust have bought Colorado Community Media, which has 24 weekly and monthly papers serving eight counties including Denver and surrounding the city, the Sun reported.

The Wall Street Journal has launched Trust Your Decisions, a new brand platform and campaign designed to reinforce the Journal’s position as “the definitive source of truth for decision-makers,” says a news release from WSJ. 

Meredith today announced that it’s selling its Local Media Group to Gray Television for $2.7 billion in cash. Meredith will focus exclusively on its National Media Group portfolio post-close.

The New York Times is retiring the Op-Ed label.

Several companies have or will soon release earnings reports for the most recent quarter.

• A bill concerning paid legal notices in newspapers may pass in Florida, the Tampa Bay Times reported.

With the decision by Gammerler GmbH (Germany) to refocus on their parts and customer service/support business in the immediate future, GammerlerTech Corporation, in addition to purchasing the remaining 49% of the shares of the former partnership with Gammerler and becoming the sole owner of …

New York Times employees are getting some extra time off in May, August and November, The Hill reports. Management told employees that they’ll get three “global days off” this year to deal with the stress of the coronavirus pandemic and other issues in the country, says The Hill.

Facebook and Google are facing a parade of lawsuits from newspaper companies, along with legislative and Department of Justice pressure.

Fujifilm North America Corporation has launched its J Press 750S High Speed Model, with output speeds of 5,400 B2 sheets per hour, says the company. The launch celebration was shared via a concept video and shown as part of Fujifilm’s Graphics Systems Division’s presence at virtual.drupa (Ap…

Times Media Group, based in the Phoenix area, has bought The Tucson Weekly, Inside Tucson Business and Explorer, the Tucson Sentinel reported.

The Hazen Star, The Beacon and The Center Republican have been sold to NorDak Publishing. The sale also includes the Dollar Saver shopper.

manroland Goss forecasts a significant increase in incoming orders, especially for new web offset presses, and a further stabilization of profitability for 2021.

• The Sacramento Bee is relocating into a new newsroom at the Cannery development, a business park campus near midtown, later in 2021, the paper reported. McClatchy owns the paper.

Lee has started trading today as a Nasdaq-listed security under the symbol “LEE.”

Alden Global Capital appears closer to buying Tribune Publishing.

Virtual.drupa, an online event for the print industry, will take place April 20 to 23. The virtual event will offer three areas to visitors. 

Eastman Kodak announced today that it has acquired the assets of ECRM Incorporated’s CTP (computer-to-plate) device business for the graphic arts and newspaper industries.

Rayonier Advanced Materials is selling all of its lumber and newsprint facilities and related assets located in Ontario and Quebec to GreenFirst Forest Products.

Tech workers at The New York Times said last week that they had formed a union and would request that the company recognize it, the paper said.

• Gannett is going to sublease the third floor of the Indianapolis Star’s office space at 130 S. Meridian St., the paper reported. The 50,000-square foot floor above IndyStar's newsroom is currently unoccupied. In 2012, the paper put its building at 307 N. Pennsylvania St. on the market and …

The Courier Journal (Louisville) building at 525 W. Broadway is for sale, the paper reported. It has a listing price of $17 million.  New York-based real estate broker BellCornerstone is handling the sale.

Unpublishingthenews.com launched April 7 to help journalists confront the rising pressures to “unpublish” — a digital-age dilemma that challenges everything from daily reporting practices to the fundamental values of the news profession, says a release from the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has announced that all products will carry a single, new masthead, “designed to ensure readers know all news and information produced by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is credible, fact-based local journalism regardless of where or how it is published,” say…

•  Mascoutah-based Better Newspapers has acquired two Illinois newspapers: The Breeze-Courier and The Shopping Spree, both in Taylorville, the Leader-Union reported.

The Supreme Court April 1 issued a unanimous decision in Prometheus Radio Project vs FCC, upholding 2017 changes to the Federal Communications Commission’s media cross-ownership rules, including the repeal of a 1970s-era rule that banned the ownership of a newspaper and a television or radio…

McClatchy is outsourcing page design and typesetting, Poynter reported. At least 26 will lose jobs.

Stacker and the Local Media Consortium have formed a partnership that will help LMC members around the country gain free access to hundreds of original data-driven stories for their local coverage each month, says a news release from LMC.

Microsoft is doing a beta test of automotive ads, the company announced. The product is available in the U.S. and U.K.

Pete Rosengren, vice president of sales and digital strategy at Daily Herald Media Group (Arlington, Illinois), died March 28 while trying to save two children from drowning at a Florida beach. Rosengren was 42.

Getty Images has bought image platform Unsplash. Getty Images said it would fund the transaction from existing cash balances and the deal was expected to close at the close of March, said Getty in a news release.

March 31 saw the launch of the Idaho Capital Sun, a nonprofit online news outlet based in Boise.

• Journalists at The State (Columbia) have moved to form South Carolina’s largest news union, The State News Guild, according to the NewsGuild. McClatchy owns the paper.

MNI Targeted Media (MNI), a division of the Meredith Corporation and its media strategy and buying company, has launched a proprietary bookazine cover wrap advertising format, serving as an extension of its targeted cover wrap advertising offerings to bookazines produced by Meredith Premium …

• Twipe has its first U.S. customer: Advance Local. Twipe is a Belgian technology company based in Leuven, offering digital publishing and an analytics SaaS platform.

The LA Times has launched a newsletter titled 8 to 3, targeted towards parents and sent every Monday evening. It’s written by Sonja Sharp and edited by Mitchell Landsberg.

 News Corp announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the Books & Media segment of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The business will be operated by HarperCollins Publishers, a News Corp subsidiary.

The Munising News (Michigan) and the Alger County Shopper will stop publishing at the end of March, the Daily Mining Gazette (Houghton, Michigan) reported. https://www.mininggazette.com/news/2021/03/end-of-an-era-munising-news-to-halt-publication-after-125-years-in-newspaper-business/

Tribune Publishing has a new suitor: Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss, The New York Times reports.