Newspaper News

After 57 years the Ripon Commonwealth Press and Express in Ripon, Wisconsin, has new owners at the helm. Effective Jan. 1 the Lyke family sold the award-winning newspaper and shopper to Delta Media Group based in Kiel. The company owns a digital marketing agency and...

Staples (MN) World newspaper sold Devlin Newspapers Inc. has sold their Staples World newspaper in Staples, Minnesota, to RMM Publications, LLC, a new company that involves long time Minnesota newspaper owners Rick Gail and Mike Kremer, as well as the current editor...

The Kilgore News Herald has been acquired by M. Roberts Media, owner of the Longview News-Journal, Tyler Morning Telegraph, The Marshall News Messenger and other newspapers. The acquisition was announced to employees today. Terms of the deal between M. Roberts Media...

The Wilson Times Co. of Wilson, NC has purchased the Kenly News, Pine Level News, Princeton News Leader and Selma News from Rick and Karen Stewart, owners of the newspapers since 1981. The Stewarts are retiring and Keven Zepezauer, Times president and publisher,...

Annandale (MN) Advocate changes hands On Oct. 1, Michele and Ed Pawlenty, owners of the neighboring Maple Lake (MN) Messenger, officially purchased the Annandale (MN) Advocate from Steve Prinsen and his wife Sharon Schumacher. Prinsen plans to remain active at the...

Leelanau Enterprise Sold to Wyoming Publisher Press Release | Grimes, McGovern & Associates | October 3, 2018 The Leelanau (Mich.) Enterprise has been sold to an independent publisher from Buffalo, Wyo. Louis Mullen purchased the weekly, recently named Michigan...

Adams Publishing Group acquires MN-based MessAge Media, Inc., publishers of two locally edited weekly newspapers, The Mille Lacs Messenger and the Aitkin Independent Age. In addition the Company publishes the weekly Bargain Hunter free distribution shopper, an 8X per...

Courier-Times Sold to Dunn, NC Daily Record. The sale was announced by Brinn Clayton, president of the Courier-Times Incorporated. Mr. Clayton and Bart Adams, publisher of the Daily Record, are longtime friends and that friendship played an important role in the sale...

The New Orleans Advocate’s owners Wednesday expanded their footprint in St. Tammany Parish, purchasing The Farmer, a weekly newspaper that has been part of the Northshore’s civic life since 1874. Georges Media Group, headed by Dathel and John Georges, bought the...

Adams Publishing Group, LLC announced today that it has purchased the assets of Chronotype Publishing Company located in Rice Lake, Wisconsin. The acquisition includes The Chronotype, Northwestern Wisconsin’s largest weekly newspaper, and The Early Bird, a weekly...

Slechta Communications, a group of three community newspapers in Iowa, has been purchased by Anamosa Publications. Slechta Communications publishes The Kalona News, The Lone Tree Reporter and The Highland Review. Ron and Helen Slectha have owned the company since June...

Timothy Linscott, who has held the position of publisher for the past year, bought the paper from Fred Arnold and McBattas Publishing. Julie Bergman of WB Grimes and Company represented Fred Arnold in the transaction. Linscott started at the FJN in 1997, moved on to...

For just the 12th time in the 136-year history of the Grant County Herald (Elbow Lake, Minnesota) new owners are talking the helm. Reed and Shelly Anfinson purchased the weekly newspaper from Anne O’Flynn, effective July 30, 2014. O’Flynn will remain on staff as the...

Veteran journalist Mark Jurkowitz, has purchased the Outer Banks Sentinel, Nag’s Head, NC, from Womack Newspapers, Inc. in a deal announced earlier today. Jurkowitz, recently stepped down as the Associate Director of the Journalism Project at the Pew Research Center...

Published continuously the past 145 years since the first issue on Aug. 24, 1872, was announced today by Craig McNeal, president of Council Grove Publishing Company, Inc. The sale to David Parker, Enid, Okla., is effective July 1. Julie Bergman, Senior Associate with...

Three Chicks Publications, LLC has sold the assets of The Wellman Advance and the Riverside Current in Iowa to Anamosa Publications owned by Jim and Bridget Johnson. The sale was effective September 28, 2016. The papers have been owned and operated by Ranee Fladung of...

HD Media Company, LLC, of Huntington, West Virginia, publisher of the Herald-Dispatch, announced today that it has purchased the assets of Wayne County Publications, Inc., located in Wayne, West Virginia. The acquisition includes the 140-year-old Wayne County News,...