MediaNews Group acquires Santa Rosa Press Democrat

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One of the last of the great independent local media companies is independent no more.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/the-press-democrat-sale/

 

[MileHigh]

That sucks.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Alden pig ****ers.

 

[Here me roar]

Terrible ****ing news

 

[Shelbyville Manhattan]

"We believe that the newspaper, its staff and most importantly the public will be best served under the stewardship of MediaNews Group, with the newspaper expertise and financial resources necessary to carry on our mission of delivering the highest-caliber local journalism for future North Bay generations."

(Not mocking the plight of those at the Press Democrat, but either this is hopeless naïveté or it reaches a stratum of bull**** so extreme it makes the Trump White House blush.)

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Another shoutout here to the Waterbury Republican in Connecticut, which said it would rather fold than sell to Alden (Hearst saved them this year).

 

[HanSenSE]

What local flair it has will be gone in a year, maybe two. Just another McPaper.

 

[LanceyHoward]

"We believe that the newspaper, its staff and most importantly the public will be best served under the stewardship of MediaNews Group, with the newspaper expertise and financial resources necessary to carry on our mission of delivering the highest-caliber local journalism for future North Bay generations."

(Not mocking the plight of those at the Press Democrat, but either this is hopeless naïveté or it reaches a stratum of bull**** so extreme it makes the Trump White House blush.)

According to Wikipedia this was a New York Times company paper until about 2011 when the Times sold all their local papers tp Halifax, a company that was eventually rolled up into what is now Gannett. But a community group that included the widow of Charles Schultz of peanuts fame (Schultz lived in Santa Rosa) bought the paper in about 2012 from Halifax. Evidentially it remained a good local paper.

It sounds like the local owners got older and/or just felt like they could not deal anymore with the declining revenues and sold out.

R.I.P