CherryRoad Media acquires Missouri newspapers from News-Press & Gazette Company

Family-owned News-Press & Gazette Company announced today that it has sold its newspapers located outside of St. Joseph to CherryRoad Media.

Dirks, Van Essen & April, a media merger and acquisition firm based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, represented News-Press & Gazette Company in the transaction. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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News Media Corporation sells Colorado cluster to Louie Mullen

News Media Corporation has sold its Colorado cluster of newspapers to Louie Mullen. The sale included Valley Courier daily in Alamosa, Monte Vista Journal, The Del Norte Prospector, The Conejos County Citizen, Center Post-Dispatch, The Mineral County Miner, The South Fork Times and SLV Lifestyles.

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The Oregonian to cut print days to 4 a week

The Oregonian/OregonLive will discontinue printing a newspaper on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, bringing an end to 142 years of daily print publication early next year.

The change takes effect Jan. 1. It is not expected to affect news staffing or news gathering operations. The newsroom will continue to publish digital editions of the newspaper, and stories on OregonLive, seven days a week.

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Daily Herald (Provo, Utah) celebrates 150 years of daily newspaper publishing

It is not often a newspaper, or any business for that matter, can celebrate 150 years of consecutive service to its community, but now the Daily Herald can.

“Through all the diversity that newspapers have gone through over the past years, the Daily Herald has continued to cover the news of Provo and Utah County with professionalism and with great effort to keep our communities informed and entertained. We are proud, after 150 years, to still be a part of this thriving community,” said Jim Konig, publisher.

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Thursday, August 17

2-3 p.m. EDT | 1-2 p.m. CDT | Noon-1 p.m. MDT | 11 a.m.-Noon PDT

Selling digital has never been an easy feat whether you've done it for days, months or years! Join this webinar with AdCellerant's VP of Business Development, Ben Bouslog, and The Advocate's Senior Digital Sales Director, Michael Chauvin, to learn best practices about how to make it happen. Walk away with different ideas on why packages work, how to enable your team, staffing models that work, and leaning into your partners to unlock success. 

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Durango Herald welcomes new deputy editor

The Durango (Colorado) Herald recently welcomed its new deputy editor, who looks to emphasize more solution-based and enterprise journalism.

Matt Hollinshead, who grew up in Centennial, started his duties on July 28 after spending the last year as assistant editor of the Beaumont Enterprise in Beaumont, Texas.

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Lisa Thompson named new chief editor of Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Lisa Thompson has been named the new executive editor of the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Fayetteville). She has been filling that position since Rusty Turner's retirement May 19.

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The Modesto Bee has new senior editor. He looks forward to ‘serving a diverse population’

McClatchy has named Carlos Virgen as senior editor at The Modesto (California) Bee, starting Aug. 21. He has spent the past 10 years as assistant managing editor for audience development at The Day of New London, Connecticut.

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