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29-711: The Herald was founded in 1889. The paper was purchased in 1899 by W.W. Robertson, who also purchased the competing weekly newspaper, the Yakima Daily Republic . In 1968, the Herald & Republic combined to an all-day newspaper called the Yakima Herald-Republic . Harte-Hanks bought the Herald-Republic in 1972 from the Robertson family. Harte-Hanks sold the paper to an affiliate of MediaNews Group in 1986. It

58-621: A media monopoly in the Milwaukee area. It created the now-defunct alternative papers MKE and ¡Aqui! Milwaukee to regain advertising dollars lost to local independents like the Shepherd Express and the Milwaukee Spanish Journal . On July 30, 2014, it was announced that Journal would be acquired by the E. W. Scripps Company in an all-stock transaction. Scripps would retain the two firms' broadcasting properties, while both

87-468: A nationwide network of local advertising content online for consumers and businesses, were sold to OpenGate Capital in 2013. Harte Hanks had owned the publication since 1972. In 2006, Harte Hanks acquired Global Address, a software company based in the United Kingdom that developed International Address Validation technology. In 2008, Global Address was renamed to Trillium Software. Trillium Software

116-517: A result most Journal stock was eventually held by its employees (under certain restrictions). A small bloc of Journal stock was given to Harvard to fund the Nieman Fellowship program for promising journalists, and another bloc was still held by the original owning families until the IPO . The Milwaukee Sentinel , begun in 1837 as a weekly published by city co-founder Solomon Juneau , passed through

145-548: Is a global marketing services company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Harte Hanks services include analytics, strategy, marketing technology, creative services, digital marketing, customer care, direct mail, logistics, and fulfillment. Founded by Houston Harte and Bernard Hanks in 1923 as Harte-Hanks Newspapers (and later Harte-Hanks Communications ), the company spent its first 50 years operating newspapers in Texas . In 1968,

174-653: Is now part of The Seattle Times Company , which purchased the paper in 1991. The newspaper was printed in Yakima until 2021, when The Seattle Times Company announced it would sell the Herald-Republic ' s headquarters and printing plant. The newspaper will instead be printed in Walla Walla by the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin . This article about a Washington (state) newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Harte-Hanks Harte Hanks

203-673: The WAIM radio and TV stations in Anderson as part of its purchase of the Independent and Mail , as well as television stations in Jacksonville, Florida , Greensboro, North Carolina , and Springfield, Missouri . In 1978, Harte Hanks bought radio stations formerly owned by Southern Broadcasting . In 1980, the company's broadcast holdings were four television stations, 11 radio stations and four cable television systems. It sold off most of these assets in

232-600: The 1920s and 1930s included the Harlingen Star , Corpus Christi Times , Big Spring Herald and Paris News . The company incorporated as Harte-Hanks Newspapers, Inc. in 1948. The company bought two competing newspapers in Greenville, Texas in the mid-1950s, consolidating them into the Herald-Banner after two years of fierce rivalry. A court case followed, with Harte Hanks accused of unfair competition. The chain

261-532: The Advantage Press commercial printing business to Gannett Company . It also sold its Louisiana-based publishing business to a Target Media Partners affiliate. In 1999 Journal Communications acquired the Great Empire radio group (13 radio stations in 4 states). The corporation had its initial public offering of Class A shares in 2003. For decades, Journal Communications was criticized with concerns about being

290-519: The Better Business Bureau listed ten (10) separate "significant" complaints from the previous three years, of which two alleged the company made unauthorized debits from customers' checking accounts, four alleged problems obtaining refunds, two alleged the company harassed a customer or former customer, two alleged improper billing, and two alleged delivery continuing after customers tried to cancel. (The total number of allegations does not add to

319-765: The Massachusetts-based Middlesex News , two other dailies, and associated weeklies in the western suburbs of Boston . It had owned the News since 1972 and bought the News-Tribune and Daily Transcript in 1986. The Abilene, Anderson, Corpus Christi, and San Angelo papers were among the last remaining Harte Hanks newspaper properties and were sold to E. W. Scripps Company in May 1997. Scripps spun out its newspaper assets into Journal Media Group in April 2015. Journal

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348-502: The Scripps and Journal print properties would be spun off as Journal Media Group. The FCC approved the deal on December 12, 2014, and it was approved by shareholders on March 11, 2015. The merger and spin-off were finalized on April 1, 2015; Stephen J. Smith was replaced as CEO by Timothy E. Stautberg—the former head of Scripps' newspaper operation. Although Journal Media Group was based at Journal Communications' old headquarters in Milwaukee,

377-580: The Sentinel name, subscription lists, and goodwill associated with the name. In 1995 the Journal and Sentinel were consolidated. The new Journal Sentinel then became a seven-day morning paper. In 1964, Journal Communications bought a part interest in Perry Printing, a commercial printer specializing in printing magazines, catalogs and free-standing inserts for publications. A decade later, in 1974, it purchased

406-576: The broadcaster from liability from common law copyright claims. The Commercial Appeal posted a controversial database listing Tennessee residents with permits to carry handguns in 2008. The database is a public record in Tennessee , but had not previously been posted online. Scripps owns and operates the Ventura County Star , which has faced many complaints involving its circulation practices rather than its editorial content. As of April 2, 2011,

435-525: The company relocated from Abilene to San Antonio. It made its first IPO on March 8, 1972, later diversifying into television and radio properties. In 1984, the company's managers took it private, later going public again in 1993. In the mid-1990s, the company withdrew from the newspaper and broadcasting business and focused solely on direct marketing and shopper publications. Harte Hanks' first newspapers were Hanks' Abilene Reporter-News and Harte's San Angelo Standard . Other early acquisitions in

464-498: The hands of several owners before being sold to the Hearst Corporation in 1924. Hearst operated the Sentinel until 1962, when, following a long and costly strike, it abruptly announced the closing of the paper. Although Hearst claimed that the paper had lost money for years, The Journal Company, concerned about the loss of an important voice (and facing questions about its own dominance of the Milwaukee media market), agreed to buy

493-506: The latter company was legally defunct, having been absorbed into Scripps and renamed "Desk BC Merger, LLC". On October 7, 2015, it was announced that Gannett would acquire Journal Media Group for $ 280 million. The deal was finalized on April 8, 2016. Florida Wisconsin Stations are arranged alphabetically by city of license . Before its merger with Journal, the papers of E. W. Scripps were known for having several controversies within

522-668: The mid-1980s to pay down debt incurred in the leveraged buyout that took the company private. Harte Hanks continued to hold KENS until 1997, when it and the company's remaining newspaper properties were sold to Scripps. Harte Hanks was formerly associated with the publication of weekly shopper publications, with a circulation at one time of 13 million weekly in 1,100 separate editions of The PennySaver and The Flyer in California and Florida , respectively. The company sold The Flyer to Coda Media in 2012, having owned it since 1983. The PennySaver and website PennySaverUSA.com,

551-568: The newspapers it ran. Hugo Zacchini performed a human cannonball act in 1972 at the Geauga County Fair in Burton, Ohio . Scripps television station WEWS-TV recorded and aired the entire act against his wishes and without compensating him, as was required by Ohio law . In Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co. , the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment did not shield

580-647: The publishing operations of both Scripps and Journal into a new company known as Journal Media Group. It is led by Timothy E. Stautberg—the former head of Scripps' newspaper business, joined by previous Journal CEO Stephen J. Smith as a chairman. In 2016, Journal Media Group was acquired by Gannett . The Milwaukee Journal was started in 1882, in competition with four other English-language, four German- and two Polish-language dailies. It launched WTMJ-AM (620) in 1927, and WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) in 1947. The Journal Company , until then primarily owned by local interests, introduced an employee stock trust plan in 1937, and as

609-533: The regional telecommunications provider to privately held Q-Comm Corp of Delaware . Upon closing the transaction, Q-Comm terminated Jim Ditter, who had been president of Norlight since 1995, and chief financial officer Phillip Garvey. What is now known as the Journal Community Publishing Group began in Waupaca, Wisconsin in 1972 as a publishing and printing company called Add Inc. A majority interest

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638-685: The remaining shares of the company. In 1995, it sold the operation (which by then had about 1000 employees and sales of $ 123 million) to the Milhous Group of California. In 1968, the Midwestern Relay cable transmission division of the Journal Company was developed out of broadcast-related expertise; in 1991, Midwestern Relay acquired Norlight, a fiber-optic private carrier, and adopted the Norlight name. On February 26, 2007, Journal Communications sold

667-572: The time of the first IPO in 1972, the firm owned properties in 19 markets across six states. The paper expanded outside of Texas that year with the purchase of the Anderson Independent and Anderson Daily Mail of Anderson, South Carolina , merging them into the Anderson Independent-Mail . By 1980, the company owned 29 daily and 68 weekly newspapers. In 1995, Harte Hanks sold to Community Newspaper Company its interest in

696-429: The total number of complaints because two complaints made multiple allegations.) In May 2013, Scripps News Service discovered and published a security breach on the websites of Oklahoma-based TerraCom Inc. and an affiliate, YourTel America Inc. in which the personal information of tens of thousands of low-income Americans was publicly exposed. In response, the two companies accused Scripps of "hacking" and of violations of

725-474: Was a Milwaukee , Wisconsin -based newspaper publishing company. The company's roots were first established in 1882 as the owner of its namesake, the Milwaukee Journal , and expanded into broadcasting with the establishment of WTMJ radio and WTMJ-TV , and the acquisition of other television and radio stations. On April 1, 2015, the E. W. Scripps Company acquired Journal Communications, and spun out

754-453: Was acquitted of the charges in 1959. In 1962, the company took full ownership of San Antonio Express-News , its largest circulation newspaper. The Express-News was one of the first properties Harte Hanks sold off, however, as it began to narrow its focus to smaller newspapers and eventually to direct marketing. Rupert Murdoch paid $ 19 million for the Express-News in 1973. At

783-621: Was later sold to Syncsort in 2016. In 2008, Harte Hanks acquired Mason Zimbler, a UK-based digital marketing and media provider. In 2008, Harte Hanks acquired Strange & Dawson, a UK-based digital advertising service. In 2010, Harte Hanks acquired Information Arts, a UK-based data insight, data management and database-marketing firm. In 2015, Harte Hanks acquired San Mateo, California-based digital marketing firm 3Q Digital. In 2018, Harte Hanks sold 3Q back to an entity owned by previous 3Q Digital owners. Journal Media Group Journal Media Group (formerly Journal Communications )

812-558: Was purchased by Journal Communications in 1981, and the remainder in 1986. In June 2007, Journal Communications sold off its JCP interests in Louisiana , Ohio , Connecticut and Vermont . The sales brought in a combined $ 30 million. The company sold 11 community newspapers, five shoppers and two printing plants in Connecticut and Vermont to Hersam Acorn Newspapers . In Ohio, Journal sold eight shoppers, numerous specialty print products and

841-443: Was then absorbed into Gannett in April 2016. The company made its first foray into other media as early as 1962, when Harte Hanks bought KENS-AM - TV , San Antonio's CBS radio and television affiliates, as part of its acquisition of the Express-News . Harte Hanks turned KENS from a perennial ratings also-ran to the market leader by 1968. In the 1970s, the newspaper-dominated company further diversified its holdings by purchasing

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