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.[1] On December 27, 2011, The New York Times Company announced it was selling its Regional Media Group to Halifax Media Group.[2] On June 1, 2012, Halifax announced it was acquiring the Florida and North Carolina papers of Freedom Communications.[4] In 2013, Halifax acquired three newspapers from HarborPoint Media:[5] the Daily Commercial of Leesburg, Florida, the South Lake Press in Clermont, Florida and News-Sun of Sebring, Florida.[6] In 2014, Halifax acquired the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester, Massachusetts.[7] In November 2014, New Media Investment Group announced its acquisition of Halifax.[8] The company was created with the assistance of Stephens Inc.
In 2015, GateHouse Media purchased the 36 newspapers then owned by Halifax Media.[9] 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:[1][10]
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
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:
South Carolina
References
- ^ a b c "News-Journal Acquisition" (Press release). Halifax Media Group. 2010-03-31. Archived from the original on 2012-08-08. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
- ^ a b "The New York Times Company Agrees to Sell Its Regional Media Group to Halifax Media Holdings LLC" (Press release). The New York Times Company. 2011-12-27. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
- ^ "Contact Us - Halifax Media Group". Halifax Media Group. 2011. Retrieved 2012-02-29.
- ^ Halifax Media buys more Florida, North Carolina newspapers
- ^ 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. Retrieved 2014-06-13.
- ^ "T&G's parent company is sold to New Media, parent of GateHouse Media". Worcester Telegram & Gazette. 2014-11-20. Retrieved 2014-12-21.
- ^ SWISHERskyler.swisher@news-jrnl.com, SKYLER. "GateHouse acquires News-Journal, Halifax Media". Daytona Beach News-Journal Online. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
- ^ "Halifax Media Group Closes Purchase of New York Times Company Regional Media Group" (Press release). Halifax Media Group. 2012-01-06. Archived from the original on 2012-09-18. Retrieved 2012-02-28.