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Nov 18, 2021

VPM Media Corp. purchases Style Weekly

VPM Media Corp., the parent company of Richmond-based VPM public television and radio stations, announced Thursday it has acquired Style Weekly, the Richmond publication that was closed down in September by its owner, Alden Global Capital, after nearly 39 years in print. Financial terms were not disclosed, and a VPM spokesperson said they could not […]

Sep 22, 2021

Tegna confirms acquisition offers

Tysons-based broadcast and digital media corporation Tegna Inc. has received acquisition bids of more than $8 billion from Apollo Global Management Inc. and media mogul Byron Allen, according to media reports. The news comes more than a year after previous purchase proposals fell through in March 2020 amid the dawning of the coronavirus pandemic. Bloomberg […]

Sep 7, 2021

Richmond’s Style Weekly shuts down after nearly 39 years

After close to 39 years, the Richmond-based alternative weekly newspaper Style Weekly will shut down this week, Editor-in-Chief Brent Baldwin posted on Style’s Facebook page Tuesday. The publication’s closing came three years after Norfolk-based Landmark Communications Inc. sold its Virginia newspapers — The Virginian-Pilot, Inside Business and Style Weekly — and their associated b[...]

Sep 7, 2021

VPM hires news director

VPM, Central Virginia’s NPR and PBS public broadcasting affiliate, has hired former Charlottesville Tomorrow News Editor Elliott Robinson as news director. “We are thrilled that Elliott will be leading VPM News,” VPM President and CEO Jayme Swain said in a statement. “With his impressive background in local news, extensive knowledge of the issues that matter […]

Sep 2, 2021

Nonprofit news site launches to cover SW and Southern Virginia

Cardinal Press, a new nonprofit digital news service covering Southwest and Southern Virginia, will begin publishing stories in late September, with Dwayne Yancey, former editorial page editor for The Roanoke Times, at the helm as its founding editor. Nonprofit organization Cardinal Productions, incorporated in June, created Cardinal Press, which will publish original stories five days […]

Aug 29, 2021

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DOUG DAVIS SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND REGIONAL MANAGER, NEXSTAR MEDIA INC., PORTSMOUTH Davis is the point person in Virginia for the country’s largest broadcast television group. Based in Portsmouth, home to WAVY and WVBT’s studios, the New Jersey native came up through the sales and management side of the business, serving in account executive, sales […]

Aug 23, 2021

Gannett names first chief data officer

McLean-based Gannett Co. Inc. named Nate Rackiewicz its first chief data officer, it announced Monday. Rackiewicz will lead a team to implement the company’s customer identity, data and growth analytics, as well as data science and modeling capabilities. He will report to Gannett’s chief marketing and strategy officer, Mayur Gupta. “We are excited to welcome […]

Aug 11, 2021

Reston-based Comscore expands Fox Corp. partnership

Reston-based media measurement and analytics company Comscore Inc. has made a multi-year agreement expanding and extending its relationship with Fox Corp., including using Comscore’s national TV measurement, it announced Friday. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed. “It is a privilege to continue our longstanding relationship with Fox and have their vote of confidence [&he[...]

Virginia Business Publisher Bernie Niemeier won a national award for commentary writing during The Alliance of Area Business Publications' 2021 awards, held virtually on June 23.
Jun 23, 2021

Virginia Business wins national journalism awards

Virginia Business won two national journalism awards Wednesday during The Alliance of Area Business Publishers’ (AABP) 2021 Editorial Excellence Awards ceremony. Virginia Business Publisher Bernie Niemeier placed gold in the Commentary category for his monthly OurView column. His winning columns included a July 2020 column, “It’s time to speak up,” which exhorted the busine[...]

May 6, 2021

Axios-Athletic merger gets axed

A proposed merger between Arlington-based digital news company Axios Media Inc. and San Francisco-based sports media firm the Athletic is no longer going forward, according to a May 6 report from The Wall Street Journal. The Journal had previously reported that the companies had been exploring merging and going public through through a special purpose […]

Apr 13, 2021

Graham Holdings Co. to acquire Leaf Group Ltd. for $323M

Arlington-based Graham Holdings Co. announced Tuesday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Santa Monica, California-based consumer internet company Leaf Group Ltd. in a $323 million, all-cash transaction. Graham Holdings will acquire all outstanding shares of Leaf Group’s common stock at $8.50 per share. The transaction is expected to close in June or […]

Apr 12, 2021

Nine newsroom employees to be laid off at Roanoke Times

Nine newsroom employees at The Roanoke Times were notified of their pending layoffs Monday by parent company Lee Enterprises Inc., according to the newspaper‘s local newsroom union and multiple staff writers who spoke with Virginia Business. The layoffs, set to take effect April 23, would cut the editorial staff to 37 positions, a nearly 20% […]

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