Jones Media Selects TownNews.com for Content Management and Hosting

By: Press Release | Jones Media

GREENEVILLE, TN — Jones Media, Inc. will relaunch its community newspaper sites—including its flagship publications The Greeneville Sun (Greeneville, TN) and The Daily Times (Maryville, TN)—on TownNews.com’s BLOX CMS.  

"After evaluating many providers, TownNews.com emerged as a best-in-class solution for our needs,” said Gregg Jones, President and CEO of Jones Media. “We are impressed with their product suite, mobile solution and customer service, and look forward to a very mutually-beneficial partnership.”  

In all, the company will move 14 properties to BLOX CMS:  
?        The Daily Times (Maryville, TN)
?        The Greeneville Sun (Greeneville, TN)
?        The Daily Post-Athenian (Athens, TN)
?        The Newport Plain Talk (Newport, TN)
?        The Advocate & Democrat (Sweetwater, TN)
?        The Herald-News (Dayton, TN)
?        The News-Herald (Lenoir City, TN)
?        The Rogersville Review (Rogersville, TN)
?        The Village Connection (Tellico Village, TN)
?        The Ashe Mountain Times (Ashe County, NC)
?        The Avery Journal-Times (Newland, NC)
?        The Blowing Rocket (Blowing Rock, NC)
?        The Mountain Times (Boone, NC)
?        The Wautauga Democrat (Boone, NC)  

BLOX CMS is an all-in-one cloud-based publishing solution with integrated modules for metering, banner management, classifieds, business directory, classified ad order entry, vertical marketplaces and more. Content can be published simultaneously to web, mobile, print and social media.  

“Gregg Jones and his company are industry leaders, and we are proud to be associated with Jones Media,” said TownNews.com CEO Marc Wilson.  

Rollout will begin in mid-February, 2014 with The Daily Times. By the end of May, all sites will be live.