Software Consulting Services (SCS) will soon have a new owner, as Kurt Jackson, SCS's vice president and general manager, has agreed to buy the Pennsylvania-based company.
The Times-Picayune and The Advocate are getting a $1 million gift from the Ford Foundation to double the size of the papers’ investigative team and grow the geographic reach of the papers’ reporting, the paper reported.
Adams Publishing Group, owners of 37 daily papers, has awarded two contracts to DCOS Automation for new press controls and closed-loop automation at their printing facilities in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Bozeman, Montana.
On July 22, Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced a companion bill in the U.S. Senate to H.R. 3940, the Local Journalism Sustainability Act.
The New York Times announced the first speaker line-up for The New York Times Climate Hub, a week of programming featuring live journalism and thought leadership on climate change to be held alongside the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, this November.
• Sun Chemical will increase prices on its inks, coatings and adhesives in Latin America. The move is coming due to a combination of raw material and transportation cost increases, says Sun Chemical.
The Daily Gazette says it will be acquiring The Leader-Herald in Gloversville, New York, part of The Ogden Newspapers, from the
Mattos Newspapers (California), which includes The Gustine Press-Standard, Westside Index, Tuesday Review, Westsideconnect.com and commercial printing, is being bought by 209 Multimedia Corporation, Westsideconnect.com reports.
The Fayetteville Observer (North Carolina) building will soon be listed for sale, the paper reports.
Sovrn Holdings, a publisher-focused tech company, has acquired San Diego-based Proper Media. Proper Media combines advertising technology with personalized managed services.
The Spokane Daily Chronicle has started publishing again, now as an evening electronic edition, Brier Dudley, Seattle Times Free Press editor, writes.
• French regulators hit Google with a fine of 500 million euros ($593 million) last week. The fine was for not complying with an order to work out fair deals with news publishers for the use of their content, CNBC and others reported.
The erstwhile home of the News & Record (Greensboro, North Carolina) is listed for sale.
Alden Global Capital is considering a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing for the New York Daily News, The New York Post reports, citing a source with knowledge of the situation.
The Key West Citizen, part of the Adams Publishing Group, has launched an online happy hour guide with help from tech partners Wehaa.
News Corp has shut down aggregation site Knewz. The site was aimed at being an alternative to Google News and other aggregators and providers.
The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is stopping newspaper printing operations at its Color Web Printers and moving printing to Gannett Publishing Services in Des Moines in August, the paper reported.
USA Today has launched a subscriber model, the paper announced July 7.
The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is stopping newspaper printing operations at its Color Web Printers and moving printing to Gannett Publishing Services in Des Moines in August, the paper reported (see link).
Bills of interest to the media industry have been introduced in Congress.
Purdue University Northwest's (Hammond, Westville, Indiana) College of Business now has a multi-year agreement with Amplified Digital Agency to continue to expand the Digital Marketing Competition across the U.S. and Lee Enterprises’s 77 local media markets.
The Hyde Media Group, formed by Granbury attorney Paul Hyde last year to buy the Hood County News (Texas), has expanded, Hood County News reports.
SCS is announcing a new application called Automated News Pagination (ANP) that automatically paginates news pages using SCS AI.
The Salt Lake Tribune has moved to a new platform “to improve the quality of the comments on sltrib.com,” says the paper.
The Idaho-based Hagadone Corporation, owner of 13 papers in Idaho, Montana and Washington, is now using the software solution Duet. Launched by publishing services and software provider ePublishing, Duet allows newspaper and magazine publishers to place content from their web CMS platform an…
The Erie Times-News is now printed at the Canton Repository in Canton, Ohio, the paper reports, having moved the job from Eagle Printing, in Butler, whom the paper says has been a first-rate partners for ten years.
Labor negotiations between The Boston Globe and unions have gotten thorny, the Boston Business Journal reports.
This is the first year in Pew’s State of the News Media project, going since 2004, that circulation revenue for U.S. newspapers has been higher than advertising revenue.
• The weekly Ellettsville Journal (Indiana) will print its last edition on August 4. Owner Gannett says it is moving coverage to The Herald-Times in Bloomington, Indiana Public Media reports. Schurz Communications bought The Ellettsville Journal in 2017. Schurz sold The Herald-Times and The …
O’Rourke Media Group has bought the Las Vegas Optic from Paxton Media Group (PMG).
USA Today Network announced it will auction its inaugural non-fungible token (NFT), inspired by the first newspaper delivered to space in 1971.
Newsletter-first local media company 6AM City is on pace to more than triple the size of the business in 2021, says the company. Over the next six months, 6AM City will expand into 24 U.S. cities and reach more than one million subscribers. To help with this expansion, the company has added …
Kodak has announced the acquisition of the service and parts assets of Southern Lithoplate (North Carolina), complementing the strategic alliance formed with SLP in December 2020.
The People-Sentinel (Barnwell, South Carolina) is going back to local ownership, the Augusta Chronicle reports.
The Bee Publishing Company (Connecticut) is making changes to its printing, says The Newtown Bee. As of July 1, all printing is moving from the company’s printing plant on Commerce Road to Trumbull Printing in Trumbull.
• Hong Kong police arrested a journalist who had been with the shuttered Apple Daily paper Sunday as he was trying to catch a flight to leave Hong Kong, according to reports, Reuters says. “Fear Grips Other Hong Kong Media After China Crushes Apple Daily,” reads a Bloomberg headline on the issue.
The coronavirus pandemic has left its mark on people’s media habits, says a report from eMarketer.
Legacy has launched community high school memorial pages. Legacy’s community pages gather obituaries for people associated with a specific high school (and soon other groups of interest, like veterans and universities, says Legacy). Readers will be able to find obituaries for their classmate…
Berkshire Hathaway has put some former newspaper buildings on the market.
Around a quarter of Chicago Tribune staff has opted for a voluntary buyout, says Robert Feder, citing the Chicago Tribune Guild.
