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Paxton Media Group of Paducah, Kentucky, is a privately held media company with holdings that include newspapers and a TV station, WPSD-TV in Paducah. David M. Paxton is president and CEO. The company owns 32 daily newspapers and numerous weekly newspapers, mostly in the southern United States. Daily circulation totals 350,000.
The following is a partial list of family-owned newspapers in the United States. It represents the small subset of the list of newspapers in the United States which are run by a family business , and may include exceptions to or examples of concerns about concentration of media ownership .
Aug. 1—The National Trust for Local News, a nonprofit that has pledged to preserve and invest in local news, has completed its purchase of most of Maine's daily newspapers, including the ...
Thirteen dailies and one weekly newspaper primarily in the Southern United States, including titles in Alabama, California, Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina and South Carolina. The Gadsden Times of Gadsden, Alabama; The Tuscaloosa News of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; The Press Democrat of Santa Rosa, California; The Ledger of Lakeland, Florida
It publishes 72 daily newspapers in 25 states, [2] and more than 350 weekly, classified, and specialty publications. [3] Lee Enterprises was founded in 1890 by Alfred Wilson Lee [2] and is based in Davenport, Iowa. [4] The company also provides online services, including websites supporting its daily newspapers and other publications.
In addition to daily newspapers, The Pioneer and Manistee News Advocate, Pioneer published three weekly papers and four local shopper publications, and operated a digital marketing services business. [49] The acquisition brought Hearst Newspapers to publishing 19 daily and 61 weekly papers.
The expanding company was renamed Schurz Communications Inc. in 1976, when the newspapers division and the TV/broadcast division were split into separate entities. [ 1 ] Schurz Communications announced on September 14, 2015 that it would exit broadcasting and sell its television and radio stations, including the Rushmore Media Company stations ...
The International Thomson Organization and Thomson Newspapers merged in 1989, creating the Thomson Corporation. Over the years, the company has withdrawn from its holdings in the oil and gas business, the travel industry and department stores. [12] When Kenneth Thomson took over from his father Roy in 1976, the company was worth about $500 ...