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Halifax Media Group

American newspaper company

Summary

American newspaper company

Field	Value
name	Halifax Media Holdings, LLC
logo	Halifax Media Group logo.png
logo_size	150px
type	Private
genre	Newspapers
foundation	Daytona Beach, Florida, United States
location	2339 Beville Road
Daytona Beach, Florida 32119
United States
area_served	United States
industry	Publishing
products	Northwest Florida Daily News
The Daytona Beach News-Journal
The Gadsden Times
The Gainesville Sun
owner	Gannett
homepage
footnotes

Daytona Beach, Florida 32119 United States The Daytona Beach News-Journal The Gadsden Times The Gainesville Sun

Halifax Media Group was an American newspaper company owning more than 30 newspapers in five Southeastern U.S. States. It was founded on March 31, 2010, when a group of investors purchased The Daytona Beach News-Journal from the Davidson family, who had owned it for 82 years. On December 27, 2011, The New York Times Company announced it was selling its Regional Media Group to Halifax Media Group. On June 1, 2012, Halifax announced it was acquiring the Florida and North Carolina papers of Freedom Communications. In 2013, Halifax acquired three newspapers from HarborPoint Media: the Daily Commercial of Leesburg, Florida, the South Lake Press in Clermont, Florida and News-Sun of Sebring, Florida. In 2014, Halifax acquired the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester, Massachusetts. In November 2014, New Media Investment Group announced its acquisition of Halifax. The company was created with the assistance of Stephens Inc.

In 2015, GateHouse Media purchased the 36 newspapers then owned by Halifax Media. In 2019, GateHouse Media merged with Gannett, Inc., owner of the USA Today and more than 100 other daily newspapers.

Assets

The Halifax Media Group owns the following assets:

Alabama

The Gadsden Times of Gadsden, Alabama
The Tuscaloosa News of Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Florida

Daily Commercial of Leesburg, Florida
The Daytona Beach News-Journal of Daytona Beach, Florida
The Gainesville Sun of Gainesville, Florida
The Ledger of Lakeland, Florida
News Chief of Winter Haven, Florida
The News Herald of Panama City
Northwest Florida Daily News of Fort Walton Beach
Sarasota Herald-Tribune of Sarasota, Florida
Star-Banner of Ocala, Florida
Weekly newspapers:
- Crestview News Bulletin of Crestview
- The Destin Log of Destin
- Eglin Dispatch of Eglin Air Force Base
- Holmes County Times-Advertiser of Bonifay
- Hurlburt Warrior of Hurlburt Field
- News-Sun of Sebring
- Press Gazette of Milton
- South Lake Press of Clermont
- The Star of Port St. Joe
- The Times of Apalachicola
- The Walton Sun of Santa Rosa Beach
- Washington County News of Chipley

Louisiana

The Daily Comet, Thibodaux, Louisiana
The Houma Courier, Houma, Louisiana

Massachusetts

Telegram & Gazette of Worcester, Massachusetts

North Carolina

The Dispatch of Lexington, North Carolina
The Daily News of Jacksonville
The Gaston Gazette of Gastonia
The Free Press of Kinston
Times-News of Hendersonville, North Carolina
The Shelby Star of Shelby
Star-News of Wilmington, North Carolina
Sun Journal of New Bern
Times-News of Burlington
Weekly newspapers:
- The Havelock News of Havelock
- Jones Post of Trenton
- The Topsail Advertiser of Surf City

South Carolina

Spartanburg Herald-Journal of Spartanburg, South Carolina

References

(2010-03-31). "News-Journal Acquisition". Halifax Media Group.
(2011-12-27). "The New York Times Company Agrees to Sell Its Regional Media Group to Halifax Media Holdings LLC". [[The New York Times Company]].
(2011). "Contact Us – Halifax Media Group". Halifax Media Group.
[http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/175942/halifax-media-buys-more-florida-newspapers/ Halifax Media buys more Florida, North Carolina newspapers]
[http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20130930/BUSINESS/130939956 Halifax Media Group purchases three Florida newspapers]
Daytona Beach – Halifax Media Group November 2013 Florida Trend page 42
Sutner, Shaun. (2014-05-21). "Halifax Media of Florida to buy Telegram & Gazette". Telegram & Gazette.
(2014-11-20). "T&G's parent company is sold to New Media, parent of GateHouse Media". Worcester Telegram & Gazette.
Swisher, Skyler. (January 9, 2015). "GateHouse acquires News-Journal, Halifax Media". [[Daytona Beach News-Journal]].
(2012-01-06). "Halifax Media Group Closes Purchase of New York Times Company Regional Media Group". Halifax Media Group.

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