CherryRoad Media Inc. announced today it has purchased nine newspapers from Rust Communications, Inc. The newspapers are published in Arkansas and Missouri. 

Mid-Atlantic Media, LLC has expanded its media holdings with the acquisition of the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent.

KAMEN & CO GROUP SERVICES, LLC, which for the past eight years has provided guidance and advised FORBES wealth and media reporters with financially valuing the leading media tycoons for the Forbes 400 Richest Americans List, has announced plans to expand its global services into Canada, England and Ireland in 2022.

Blank Slate Media, the publisher of six-award-winning weekly newspapers on the North Shore of Nassau County, Long Island, New York, announced today the launch of a new website, TheIsland360.com. In addition, the company has partnered with Wallit, a subscription management software company that will power the new website’s registration engine and upcoming paywall implementation in the coming months. 

Over 40 years ago an invoice that accidently landed on the wrong desk, sparked an initiative to band the newspaper industry together.  That invoice was addressed to a large newspaper chain but was received by a publisher at an independent paper.  When he saw the difference in pricing from the same supplier, the idea was born to form a purchasing cooperative for newspapers.

Editor & Publisher is excited to announce a new partnership with The Diversity Pledge Institute, a nonprofit organization addressing newsroom diversity by working with employers to improve hiring and retention of journalists of color and by identifying skilled journalists of color and preparing them for careers in news.

Doorfront Direct, the nation’s largest magazine and catalog delivery network, announced this week that The Advocate, serving Baton Rouge and New Orleans, has begun weekly delivery with the network.

Stacker, a data-driven newswire, has signed five new publishing partners—Adams Publishing Group, Advance Local, Beasley Media Group, Narcity and WEHCO. Stacker will provide its localized journalism to newsrooms in those partner networks.

Community Newspaper Group is the latest newspaper group to select Layout-8000 from SCS.

The Ohio News Media Association has entered into a partnership with Column under which a new site will be rolled out later this spring for those who currently use publicnoticesohio.com to search for bids, meeting notices, foreclosures and other important legal notice news items.

Media professionals and publishers with more than 25 years of experience explained how obituaries drive digital traffic, ensure reader engagement, and increase revenue.

Stacker, a data-driven newswire, is welcoming six new team members this month, representing 25% growth across the organization.

Thought leaderships will illuminate the power of AI during upcoming webinar.

HINSDALE, MA. & CLIFTON PARK, N.Y. (November 15, 2021) – Wallit, a state-of-the-art software firm based in Milwaukee, which provides paywall services to dozens of publishers throughout the United States, has sold a majority stake to MvWd Enterprises, a media group based in the Berkshires (western Massachusetts) and New York's Capital Region. MvWd Enterprises is headed by Warren Dews, Jr. and Mark Vinciguerra.

BlueLena has named Subtext as the preferred SMS vendor for its clients.

VoicePort, LLC, a leading customer self-service automation software provider serving the newspaper and subscription industry, acquired Innovative Systems Design Inc. (ISD Chatterbox), effective Nov. 1.

In October, The Papers, Inc., a Northern Indiana-based publishing company, signed contracts with SCS to implement the Community Advertising System and Community Publishing System to standardize the advertising, production and editorial workflows across its 16 weekly and monthly newspapers and magazines.

Results from Billings Gazette, Omaha World-Herald, The Daily Progress and NWI Times pave the way for an accelerated rollout to all 80 of the group’s properties.

TownNews and BlueLena have announced a partnership that will empower local media organizations to rapidly activate reader revenue using TownNews’ smart metering and paywall solution, iQ Audience+.

At the America’s Newspapers Senior Leadership Conference in Colorado Springs, Colorado, CherryRoad Media (Parsippany, New Jersey) has contracted with SCS to implement the Community Advertising System and Community Publishing System to standardize the advertising, production and editorial workflows across its 27 community newspapers.