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In the heart of Alabama’s literary capital, Monroeville Journal is a family’s labor of love
Sep 1, 2019
Today, Bo Bolton is the owner and publisher of the storied Monroe Journal in Monroeville, Alabama, a small, rural, picturesque community in the Piney Woods region of southwestern Alabama and home ...
Need a great job? Buy a weekly newspaper
Sep 1, 2019
We bought the Star-Leader on Aug. 1, 1980, using our savings from seven years of employment as a down payment. We bought our first newspaper before we bought our first house.
Feisty Idaho Mountain Express thrives in tough environment
Aug 1, 2019
Newspapers are getting a bad rap these days, but in Blaine County, readers appreciate the Mountain Express, according to Morris.
Dodge County Pionier publishes legal notice at its own expense to keep readers informed
Jul 1, 2019
Residents of Mayville have complained for years about the odors drifting off the Glacier Ridge Landfill located right outside town, so when the landfill proposed a vertical expansion of about 100 feet, ...
Local ownership leads newspaper group out of debt and to a Pulitzer Prize
Jun 1, 2019
The newspaper and its affiliated publications are now debt-free and have returned all capital to investors.
Magic Valley Publishing Co. acquires JW10 publications
Jun 1, 2019
Magic Valley Publishing Co., Inc (MVP), headquartered in Camden, Tennessee, acquired The Millington Star, The Bartlett Express, Shelby Sun Times and the Collierville Independent from Journal, Inc based ...
Mullen buys 3 South Dakota weeklies, shopper from Atkinsons
Jun 1, 2019
The Mobridge (South Dakota) Tribune, Potter County News in Gettysburg, the West River Eagle in Eagle Butte, and the Monday Reminder shopper have been sold to independent publisher J. Louis Mullen of Buffalo, ...
Jennifer Rash Lane’s labor of love to make her grandfather proud
Jun 1, 2019
“On newspaper day, it would be my sister, Heather, my grandma and me, and we’d load up the newspapers, and we’d get in grandpa’s truck. There was no air conditioning, so we’d ...
Community apathy led to death of Warroad (Minnesota) Pioneer
Jun 1, 2019
“He said he spent a week in Warroad, talking to locals about the paper closing. He admitted that most folks, outside of the Pioneer staff and their husbands, didn't seem too broken up about it.”
