CRIBB, GREENE & COPE

Boone Newsmedia, Inc. (BNI) has sold four Alabama newspapers to Jeff and Michelle Schumacher, according to John Cribb, Cribb & Associates, who represented BNI in the transaction. The sale was closed April 30th, 2025. Terms were not disclosed. Included in the sale...

Jim and Sandy Poole, owners of the Times-Journal in Cobleskill, NY has sold the newspaper after 32 years of ownership according to John Cribb, Cribb, Cope & Potts who represented the Poole family in the transaction. The T-J was sold to Mr. Mark Vinciguerra, owner...

Carpenter Media Group (CMG) and News Media Corporation (NMC) announced today plans for CMG to manage NMC with an option to acquire, according to John Cribb, Cribb, Cope & Potts who assisted NMC and the Tompkins family in structuring the agreement. Longtime NMC...

Portland, OR – Dr. Robert B. Pamplin Jr. has sold Pamplin Media Group (PMG) to Carpenter Media Group (CMG), according to John Cribb, Cribb, Cope & Potts, who represented Pamplin and PMG in the transaction. The sale was closed effective June 1. Terms were not...

Farmington, NM – Ballantine Communications has acquired The Daily Times, which serves Farmington and San Juan County, New Mexico, from Gannett according to John Cribb, of Cribb, Cope & Potts who represented the Ballantine family in the transaction. Dirks, Van...

Kernersville, NC – Meredith Owensby Harrell has sold Carter Publishing Co., Inc. d/b/a Kernersville News to Paxton Media Group according to John Cribb, Cribb, Cope & Potts who represented the Carter/Owensby-Harrell family in the transaction. Terms were not...

Dallas, OR – Scott and Jeanne Olson have sold the Polk County Itemizer-Observer, Dallas, Oregon to Country Media, Inc. John Cribb of Cribb, Cope & Potts represented the Olson family in the sale. Terms were not disclosed. “I would like to thank the loyal readers...

Newport, OR – News Media Corporation has sold its Oregon cluster of newspapers to Country Media, Inc. The sale included the Newport News Times, Newport, Oregon, the Siuslaw News, Florence, Oregon, and the Cottage Grove Sentinel, Cottage Grove, Oregon. John Cribb, of...

Alamosa, CO – News Media Corporation has sold its Colorado cluster of newspapers to Louie Mullen. The sale included Valley Courier daily in Alamosa, Monte Vista Journal, The Del Norte Prospector, The Conejos County Citizen, Center Post-Dispatch, The Mineral County...

Paxton Media group is acquiring the Chronicle-Independent, the Lee County Observer, the Blythewood Country Chronicle, the Winnsboro/Fairfield County Country Chronicle, the Ft. Jackson Leader, The Shaw News, and assorted glossy magazines and websites from Camden Media...