Sunday, July 11, 2021

More Media News

• The weekly Ellettsville Journal (Indiana) will print its last edition on August 4. Owner Gannett says it is moving coverage to The Herald-Times in Bloomington, Indiana Public Media reports. Schurz Communications bought The Ellettsville Journal in 2017. Schurz sold The Herald-Times and The Ellettsville Journal to Gatehouse Media in 2019. Gatehouse later merged with Gannett.

• Reporters Without Borders says it knows of at least 22 newspapers throughout the world that were driven to close by governments they annoyed during the past five years, the fate suffered by Apple Daily, Hong Kong’s popular tabloid, which announced on June 23 that it was shutting down under pressure from the Hong Kong and Chinese authorities.

• Stora Enso has completed co-determination negotiations concerning closing the pulp and paper production at its Kvarnsveden site in Sweden. The closure will take place by the end of the third quarter of this year, the company says.

• UPM’s newsprint mill Chapelle Darblay in France will be sold and make hydrogen in the future, EUWID Pulp and Paper reports. This means the end of paper production at one of the last two newsprint mills in France.

• Sun Chemical and DIC Corporation have finalized the acquisition of BASF’s global pigments business. Sun Chemical, a member of the DIC Group, is a producer of packaging and graphic solutions, color and display technologies, functional products, electronic materials and products for the automotive and healthcare industries.

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