• eMarketer and Business Insider Intelligence have merged to form Insider Intelligence. Germany ’s Axel Springer owns the
publications.
• Santa
Rosa, California-based Sonoma Media Investments has secured a $3.4 million
federal loan, the Sonoma Index-Tribune reported. The loan, part of the coronavirus
relief program, will go to paying salaries, rent and utility bills at SMI
publications.
• WEHCO
Media will receive $12.3 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans through
the U.S. Small Business Administration, Walter E. Hussman Jr., the company's
chairman, announced. The company owns the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Northwest
Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette, eight other dailies and eight weeklies.
• The
Washington County Pilot-Tribune has changed the web size or width of the paper,
the paper announced. The width had been 12 1/2 inches and
has gone to 11 1/4 inches. The length of the page will stay the same.
Enterprise Publishing Company, headquartered in Blair , Nebraska ,
owns the paper.
• BuzzFeed
is furloughing 68 employees and extending salary cuts, Variety reported.
• The
Facebook Journalism Project is providing $750,000 in funding and training
to help news organizations in the Middle East and North
Africa navigate the impact of COVID-19.
• The
Atlanta Citizens Journal (Atlanta , Texas ) and the Cass
County Sun
(Linden , Texas )
have combined. The new paper is called Cass County
Now.
• Poynter provides a page tracking newsroom layoffs, furloughs
and closures caused by the coronavirus.
• The Boston Globe laid
off two union workers and an unspecified number of nonunion staff last week in
reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic, Commonwealth reported.
• Nuvo, an
alternative paper in Indianapolis , plans to stop publishing on May
25.
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