Northern News Services

NNSL Media

Company type	Private
Industry	Publishing
Founded	Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (1972)
Headquarters	Yellowknife, Northwest Territories , Canada
Number of locations	1 main office, 5 news bureaus: Inuvik, Hay River, Fort Simpson, Rankin Inlet, Iqaluit
Area served	Northwest Territories, Nunavut
Key people	J.W. (Sig) Sigvaldason (Founder) Bruce Valpy (Publisher)
Products	Newspapers
Owner	Black Press
Number of employees	60 (2007)
Website	nnsl.com

NNSL Media (Northern News Services LTD) is a news and media company based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. It is one of the few remaining independent newspaper companies in Canada, producing all-original content with little to no reliance on syndicated news. NNSL publishes seven different papers weekly: Kivalliq News , Yellowknifer (Wednesday and Friday editions), News/North (Northwest Territories News/North and Nunavut News/North).

In March 2017, NNSL Media ceased publication of the weekly the Deh Cho Drum newspaper after 23 years. ^[1]

In March 2021, Black Press, a Canadian publisher of over 170 newspapers in Canada and the United States, purchased NNSL. ^[2] According to a report, NNSL had been on sale for over a year. ^[3]

In January 2025, NNSL shuttered the Inuvik Drum. The newspaper was first published on Jan. 6, 1966 and had been owned by the company since 1988. ^[4]

References

1. Thomson, Jimmy (March 29, 2017). "After 23 years, N.W.T.'s Deh Cho Drum newspaper suspends publication". CBC. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
2. "Black Press Media acquires Northern News Services papers in NWT and Nunavut". Yukon News. 2021-03-11. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
3. "Black Press in negotiations to take over NNSL papers". February 2, 2021. Archived from the original on February 2, 2021. Retrieved February 2, 2021.
4. Antunes, Jorge (January 23, 2025). "NNSL Media shutters Inuvik Drum newspaper". Nunatsiaq News. Retrieved 2025-01-23.

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