EDITORIAL: Journalism has no home for gatekeeping in 2025
Freelance and citizen journalists are not the reason for the demise of newspapers in America, but rather corporate downsizing and hedge fund buyouts.
Freelance and citizen journalists are not the reason for the demise of newspapers in America, but rather corporate downsizing and hedge fund buyouts.
LOUISVILLE, Ky./CARBONDALE -- Paxton Media Group (PMG), a family-owned media company currently managed by fifth generation family members, has agreed to purchase The Southern Illinoisan newspaper on Monday. Lee Enterprises had owned The Southern Illinoisan since 1979. Dirks, Van Essen & April, a media merger and acquisition firm based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is representing Lee Enterprises in the transaction. Terms were not disclosed. PMG Group Publisher Bill Evans will add The Southern to his stable of media properties […]
DAVENPORT, Iowa (Iowa Capital Dispatch) -- The Iowa-based newspaper chain Lee Enterprises is facing a potential class-action lawsuit alleging it has shared readers’ personal information with Facebook in violation of federal law. Lee publishes newspapers and other media content in 77 markets across 26 states, including Illinois' The Pantagraph in Bloomington, Herald and Review in Decatur, and the Journal-Gazette and Times-Courier in Mattoon and Charleston, and in Missouri, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The lawsuit, filed this week in U.S. District […]