CRIBB, Cope & Potts

Bowling Green, KY - After 140 years of local ownership by the Gaines family of Bowling Green, an agreement has been reached to sell the Bowling Green Daily News to Carpenter Newsmedia LLC, an affiliate of Boone Newspapers Inc., a family owned organization based in...

FORT WAYNE, Indiana – Ogden Newspapers, through its partnership with Journal Gazette Co. in the Fort Wayne Newspapers company, has purchased KPC Media, according to Randy Cope, Cribb, Cope & Potts, who represented the Witwer family, owner of KPC Media. The KPC...

Spencer, IA – April 1, 2022 – Rust Communications has sold the Le Mars Daily Sentinel, Cherokee Chronicle Times, Spencer Daily Reporter, and several other northwest Iowa publications to Gene Hall and his son Chris, according to Randy Cope of Cribb, Cope & Potts,...

A century of Kavanagh newspaper ownership has come to an end. Brian and LeAnne Kavanagh have sold the Shelby Promoter, as well as the Cut Bank Pioneer Press, Browning Glacier Reporter and The Valierian to Jesse Mullen and Lloyd Mullen of Ponderosa Publications, LLC...

Parsippany, NJ – March 1, 2022- CherryRoad Media Inc. announced today it has purchased nine newspapers from Rust Communications, Inc. The newspapers are published in Arkansas and Missouri. Cribb, Cope & Potts, the oldest newspaper, and publication brokerage in the...

Manhattan, NY – The Prial family has sold the weekly Chief-Leader, Manhattan, NY, newspaper to August Cooperative, LLC according to John Cribb, Cribb, Cope & Potts who represented the Prial family in the transaction. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed....

Cribb, Greene & Cope, the nation’s oldest, continuously running newspaper and publication brokerage, has been renamed to Cribb, Cope & Potts to reflect the firm’s most recent ownership/partner changes. The firm’s name change coincides with the addition over...

Whiteville, NC - Les High and Stuart High Rogers have sold The News Reporter newspaper in Whiteville, North Carolina, to Justin Smith, current editor of the paper according to Dolph Tillotson of Cribb, Cope & Potts who assisted the High family in the transaction....

St. Maries, ID – Dan and Cindy Hammes, second generation family owners of the St. Maries Gazette Record, St. Maries, Idaho, have sold the newspaper to Jesse and Sasha Mullen of Deer Lodge, Mt, according to John Thomas Cribb of Cribb, Greene & Cope who represented...

HARLAN, IA – The Mores family, after 81 years of ownership, has sold Harlan Newspapers to Louie Mullen, owner of Blackbird LLC, according to Randy Cope, Cribb, Greene & Cope who represented the Mores family. Alan Mores and Steve Mores are confident that Mullen’s...