Boone Newspapers

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    • Catherine Boone Hadaway, Senior VP
Website boonenewspapers.com

Boone Newspapers, Incorporated (BNI) is the parent company of a publishing business that includes dozens of newspapers as well as magazines, other published materials, and internet properties in the United States. [1] It is a private company and owns papers in smaller cities in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas, Michigan, Mississippi, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia. [2] The company is based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. [3]

Founded by University of Alabama graduate Buford Boone (1909-1983), as of 2023 the company owned or managed 91 newspapers and other media products across Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee and Texas. [4]

After originally owning Tuscaloosa Newspapers Inc. under the guidance of Carmage Walls, [5] Boone eventually took over the company and purchased additional papers. [6] In 2014, Boone Newspapers bought several newspapers from Evening Post Industries. [7]

Boone, who died of cancer in 1983, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1956 for an anti-segregation editorial in the Tuscaloosa News , where he was the longtime editor and publisher, about the admission of the first Black student to the University of Alabama. [8] The Encyclopedia of Alabama says he was "one of only a handful of white newspaper leaders in the South to take a moderate stance on civil rights, advocating a calm, level-headed acceptance of desegregation." [9]

His son, James B. "Jim" Boone Jr. (1935-2023), created the media company that bears the family name. Long known as Boone Newspapers, Inc., it was renamed Boone Newsmedia in 2022 "to reflect its expansion into digital-centered media," the Associated Press reported. [4]

After Jim Boone's death in February 2023, Boone Newsmedia announced in October that Todd H. Carpenter, its CEO since 2004, would be separating from the company with several properties that he had jointly owned under his Carpenter Newsmedia LLC company, including newspapers in Georgia, Louisiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Jim Boone's daughter, Catherine Boone Hadaway, was named senior vice president of Boone Newsmedia and Scott Stewart was named president and CEO. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Boone Newspapers Inc". www.bloomberg.com.
  2. 1 2 "Valley Times-News sold to Boone Newspapers | Alabama Press Association". www.alabamapress.org.
  3. ↑ Staff report. "Tuscaloosa-based Boone Newspapers buys daily Kentucky paper". Tuscaloosa News.
  4. 1 2 Associated Press (February 15, 2023). "Jim Boone, founder of Boone newspaper chain dies at age 87". Associated Press . Retrieved December 16, 2023.
  5. 1 2 Boone Newsmedia and Carpenter Newsmedia (October 27, 2023). "Boone Newsmedia and Carpenter Newsmedia announce plans to separate the companies; leadership changes announced". Editor & Publisher . Retrieved December 16, 2023.
  6. ↑ "The History of BNI | Boone Newspapers, Inc". www.boonenewspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Salisbury Post purchased by Boone Newspapers affiliate - Salisbury Post". February 18, 2014.
  8. ↑ Associated Press (February 9, 1983). "BUFORD BOONE, EDITORALIST; WON PULITZER PRIZE IN 1957". The New York Times . Retrieved December 16, 2023.
  9. ↑ "Buford Boone". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Retrieved December 16, 2023.
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