GateHouse gobbles up more newspapers

Why the Gannett-Gatehouse Merger Will Speed The Demise Of ...

Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper chain, with more than 100 dailies and hundreds of weeklies, has been in financial distress for some time ...

Newspaper giant McClatchy files for bankruptcy - New York Post

Apollo Global Management financed a recent $1.2 billion deal whereby the holding company in charge of Gatehouse Media gobbled up much-larger USA ...

My take on the Buffalo News sale - Investigative Post

The News has been an outlier: a stand-alone daily newspaper. Most have been gobbled up by chains, but News owner Warren Buffett hung onto the ...

Herald-Times building scooped up by MCCSC for 2.9 million

The once bustling parking lot of the community newspaper is now empty on most days, and the marquee on the front of the building reading, Herald ...

The State of Local News 2022

Recent research has shown that, even in their diminished state, newspapers still provide most of the news that feeds our democracy at the state ...

New, locally-owned newspapers focus on community news

He said as corporations gobble up local papers, the news is becoming homogenized as local content dwindles. He said communities ultimately pay ...

Opinion | Care About Journalism? Maybe You Should Cancel Your ...

Fueled by a bleak new study about “the hollowing-out” of local news from PEN America, and prodded by two recent newspaper company merger deals, ...

Corporate Profit Motive Often Clashes with Local News Needs

“As newspapers have suffered financially and slashed newsroom staff, they have dramatically cut their coverage of mayors, city halls, school ...

Dramatic consolidation across local TV, radio and newspapers is a ...

That's particularly obvious with newspapers, where NiemanLab's Ken Doctor wrote in December that even after the GateHouse-Gannett merger, more ...

Breaking news: Newspaper closures hurt Ohio communities

... media conglomerates are gobbling up papers ... Two counties have both GateHouse and Gannett papers – usually a daily and one or more weeklies.

The future of Iowa's newspapers | CITYVIEW

Yet Gannett, which bought the paper in 1985, rang up profits more than double those under Cowles family ownership. How? Expensive statewide ...

Local Radio Follows Local Newspapers Down The Drain Of ... - WGBH

Newspapers are struggling because the internet undermined the value of advertising and because social media proved more alluring than the latest ...

Opinion: Don't count on private equity to save newspapers - PitchBook

GateHouse's strategy follows the buy-and-build PE model: gobbling up newspapers on the cheap with the help of debt, consolidating operations ...

Free Press owner Gannett plays down fears of massive layoffs as ...

Gannett investors have been pleased that the long-struggling newspaper chain found a buyer, sending shares up 14% this year. But New Media ...

'It's devastating.' As Boston-area weeklies close, towns ponder civic ...

Gannett plans to fold or merge two-dozen print papers in Eastern Massachusetts in shift to more digital, and regional, coverage of local news.

Let's blow it up and start over - by Bill Shaner

Private equity has been gobbling up newspapers ... Gatehouse Media bought Worcester Magazine in February 2018. ... If they add just a few more they'll have more ...

Notorious hedge fund sparks panic about death of local news - Axios

“It is deeply concerning that hedge funds continue to gobble up local news companies, gut newsrooms and then rake in short-term profits while ...

Gannett merger: GateHouse newspaper deal announced

GateHouse publishes 156 daily newspapers and 464 community newspapers, reaching more than 22 million people each week. Gannett remains the ...

Newspaper Ex Sum 7.19 - Policy Matters Ohio

Small, independent publishers struggle to make a profit. Big media companies – some run by hedge funds – swoop in and gobble up papers, consolidating operations ...

Fear the Vulture: Alden Destroys News Organizations While ...

MNG is a private company so we do not have a clear view of its financials. By all indications, it is the most profitable newspaper chain in the ...