Newspaper News

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,...

The sale of Buffalo Healthy Living Magazine, Western New York’s only free full color monthly publication devoted to health, fitness, and nutrition to a company founded by the magazine’s editor and associate publisher Annette Pinder was announced today by David L....

BRISTOW, OK—Central Oklahoma Publications LLC, of Cordell, OK, has acquired the Bristow News, a twice-weekly paid-circulation newspaper in Bristow, OK, from CKA Publications LLC. The purchase was announced by Brett Wesner, principal of Central Oklahoma Publications....

Daniel and Emily McGonigle, Pinchtown Publishing, LLC announce the sale of the Fairfax Standard-Gazette & Messenger (MN) newspaper to David Bonsack and Denise Peterson, D&D Publications, LLC, of Gibbon, (MN) effective Thursday, January 2, 2014. Julie Bergman...

Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. today announced the sale of the San Marcos (TX) Daily Record to San Marcos Publishing LP, managed by veteran newspaper executive Jim Moser. Dirks, Van Essen & Murray represented Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. in the...

The Herald, a weekly newspaper in Havana, Florida owned and operated by Nick Bert, has been sold to Mark Pettus, a veteran newspaper publisher from Jacksonville, Florida. The paid community weekly has served the residents of Havana and Gadsden County, a suburb of...

Southern Newspapers Inc., owner of The Bay City Tribune, has purchased the Matagorda Advocate from the Victoria Advocate.Southern Newspapers, Inc., was represented by Rollie Hyde of W. B. Grimes and Company. Southern Newspapers owns 11 community newspapers in Texas,...

Willie Gray, President of Gray and Gray Inc., recently announced the company’s acquisition of the Washington County News, a weekly newspaper published in Chatom, Alabama. Gray has been the owner and publisher of the Citronelle Call News, located in Citronelle, Ala.,...

Eric Buskirk, owner of the Valley Chronicle, Hemet, CA, the Henderson Press, Henderson, NV and Verican, Inc., a newspaper technology company, has purchased the Valley Roadrunner, Valley Center, CA from Shirley and Dale Good. The sale was effective November 29. “I am...

Bell Press, Inc., publishers of weekly newspapers in Barron, Ladysmith and Bloomer, all in northwest Wisconsin, has acquired the nearby 129-year-old Chetek Alert, owned in part by the same family since 1944. Melodee A. Eckerman, who succeeded her mother, Ida Mason, as...

Jeff Jordan, President of Plains Press, Inc., has announced the acquisition of the Castro County News based in Dimmitt, TX. The former owners are Chris and Joye Bradford of Comanche, TX. Jordan currently publishes the Knox City (TX) News, the Newcastle (TX) Post and...