Paxton Media sells the weekly Sumter Times to D-R Media |
Paxton Media has sold the 142-year-old weekly Sumter Times, the county seat weekly in Sumter, Florida, to D-R Media. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Jamie Paxton, CEO of Paxton Media said, “We acquired this weekly with our acquisition of the Landmark newspapers in Florida a year ago. We love the Florida market, but this small weekly fits perfectly with the existing D-R Media weekly paper in Sumter and the D-R Media footprint in central Florida.”
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Precarious conditions in local news sparks collective action |
Local news organizations are unionizing at a rapid pace — but how often are these journalists seeing wins? The Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media looked at unionization in the local news field from a solutions-style lens to investigate the frequency and type of successes and limitations.
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Jeremy Speer to lead Ogden Newspapers' NW Ohio papers |
Jeremy Speer, publisher of The Courier in Findlay, The Advertiser-Tribune in Tiffin and Review Times in Fostoria has been promoted to group publisher of Ogden Newspapers’ five papers in northwest Ohio, adding the Sandusky Register and Norwalk Reflector to the publications he oversees.
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Adams Publishing Group staffing changes announced in Southern Wisconsin |
Adams Publishing Group of Southern Wisconsin has announced upcoming staffing changes at the Cambridge News and Deerfield Independent and the Herald-Independent and McFarland Thistle.
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Stacker names Micah Cohen editor-in-chief |
Stacker, a news agency offering a newswire that provides data-driven feature content to thousands of news outlets across the country, has appointed Micah Cohen to the newly created role of editor-in-chief. Cohen will oversee Stacker’s growing newsroom, leading content strategy and managing data reporting and editorial.
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Meet The Sand Mountain Reporter’s new advertising director |
Former circulation manager for The Sand Mountain Reporter, Jonathan Bottomlee, has jumped back into sales, taking the lead as advertising director.
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The Athens Messenger adds new staff writer |
The Athens (Ohio) Messenger welcomes its newest staff writer, Nicole Bowman-Layton. She is currently working remotely until moving to Athens and assuming her full-time, in-office responsibilities on June 6.
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Why Politico’s big Roe v. Wade scoop is unprecedented
Gerstein and Ward wrote, “The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO.” ...
Because such a draft becoming public is so rare — the Politico story called it an “extraordinary window into the justices’ deliberations in one of the most consequential cases before the court in the last five decades” — media observers were quick to at least question its authenticity and whether Politico should have run with it.
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EXPLAINER: What Twitter could do as privately held company
If Elon Musk and Twitter get their way, the company will soon be privately held and under his control.
The most obvious immediate change would likely be Twitter's stock being taken off the New York Stock Exchange. But the company would also likely get freed from having to give regular updates about its business to U.S. regulators and to Wall Street.
One important change for Twitter users is that the company would likely have more freedom to make big or unpopular changes. That's because it wouldn't have to worry about potential blowback from Wall Street.
Here's a look at what it means for a company to go private.
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Submit your newspaper's best editorials/columns from 2021-22
Recognizing editorial page excellence!
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Entries must have been published — online or in print — by a daily or non-daily newspaper between Jan. 1, 2021, and May 27, 2022. All entries must be submitted no later than 4 p.m. CDT on Friday, May 27.
This contest is open to members of America's Newspapers.
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First-place carries a cash prize of $2,000; second-place winners will receive $1,000 (in each of two circulation brackets) |
America's Newspapers will recognize editorial page excellence at its annual meeting this fall, with the presentation of the 2022 Carmage Walls Commentary Prize.
The prize is named for the late Benjamin Carmage Walls whose newspaper career spanned seven decades. Walls primarily owned community newspapers and advocated strong, courageous and positive editorial page leadership. His friends and associates funded the cost of the awards for the first 10 years. Southern Newspapers, Inc. — led by Lissa Walls Cribb, his daughter, CEO of Southern Newspapers — has been underwriting the cost of the awards since then.
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