Sunday, May 17, 2020

More Media News


• 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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