Sample News Group

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Sample News Group, LLC is an American publisher of newspapers serving suburban and rural markets in the tri-state area of New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, as well as in Vermont. The company is family owned and structured as a limited liability company. According to their website, their address is in State College, Pennsylvania. [1]

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History

Sample News Group was founded by George Raymond Sample, Jr. (1924–2008). [2] [3] Sample was married to a woman named Janet. [4] As of October 2022, George "Scoop" Sample ( né  George Raymond Sample III; born 1952),[ citation needed ] one of eight children of George Sample Jr., [5] is the CEO. [6] Scoop's hometown is Corry, Pennsylvania. [7] The group is also actively managed by Scoop's wife, Marlene Sample (aka "Sissie" Kane; née  Marlene Sue Kane; born 1951).[ citation needed ]

The family of Joseph Franklin Biddle sold the Joseph F. Biddle Publishing Company to Sample in October 1991; the deal included Huntingdon's Daily News, as well as three other publications. [8]

In 2018, Sample purchased The Times Record and the Journal Tribune from Reade Brower. [9] That same year, Sample acquired two dailies in Vermont, sister papers Rutland Herald and The Times Argus, [10] purchasing them from Vermont Community Media, a company partially owned by Brower. [11] Two other weeklies and some websites were also included in the sale. [12] Brower's company had acquired the two dailies as well as the Rutland Reader and the Central Vermont Reader in 2016; [13] they are now both owned by Sample. [14] Also in 2018, Sample sold its Chester, Vermont paper The Message for the Week to KMA Publishing, who ended its publication. [15]

In early 2022, the group announced they had introduced a new publisher and a new VP of digital development to serve its holdings in southwestern Pennsylvania. [16] [17] later in 2022, the Titusville News-Journal was started by Sample. [18]

The Batavia Daily News and Livingston County News of Livingston County, New York and Genesee County, New York were purchased in 2023, [19] [20] from the Watertown, New York–based Johnson Newspaper Corporation. [21]

In November 2024, the company acquired Bee Group Newspapers from the Measer family. [22]

Publications

The group, as listed on their website in October 2023, owns the following:

Dailies

New York

Pennsylvania

Vermont

Weeklies

New Jersey

New York

Pennsylvania

Vermont

Business

Pennsylvania

Lifestyle

Pennsylvania

  • Centered: Life in Balance (State College)
  • State College Magazine (State College)

Shopping

New York

Pennsylvania

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References

  1. ↑ "Contact Information". Sample News Group . Retrieved 2023-10-05.
  2. ↑ English, Phil (July 30, 2008). "154 Cong. Rec. 17775 - HONORING THE LIFE OF GEORGE R. SAMPLE, JR". Congressional Record . 154 (13): 17775–17776. Also available via Congress.gov.
  3. ↑ "About". citizenstandard.com. The Citizen-Standard. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  4. ↑ "Longtime journalist, publisher Sample dies at 84". Meadville Tribune . Associated Press. 2008-06-18. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  5. ↑ "George R. Sample '46". Penn State Behrend. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  6. ↑ Mertz, Kevin (2022-10-21). "Sample News Group CEO honored". The News-Item . Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  7. ↑ "George "Scoop" Sample". PA Business Central/Marcellus Business Central/Women in Business . 2017-01-27. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  8. ↑ "Huntingdon Newspaper Is Purchased". The Times-Tribune . Associated Press. October 27, 1991. p. A-12.
  9. ↑ Keyes, Bob (2018-03-23). "Press Herald owner Reade Brower will acquire newspapers in Biddeford and Brunswick". Portland Press Herald . Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  10. ↑ Delcore, David (2018-03-22). "Rutland Herald and Times Argus to be sold — again". Rutland Herald . Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  11. ↑ Meyn, Colin (2018-03-22). "Herald and Times Argus sold to family-owned Sample News Group". VTDigger. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  12. ↑ "Sample News Group purchases Rutland Herald". The Eagle Times. 2018-03-23. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  13. ↑ "Courier owner buys pair of Vermont papers". Courier-Gazette. 2016-08-11. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  14. ↑ "Sample News Group Publication List". Sample News Group . Retrieved 2023-10-06.
  15. ↑ Cunningham, Shawn; Prairie, Cynthia (April 27, 2018). "Message closed; sale to Vermont Journal expected". The Chester Telegraph . Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  16. ↑ "Sample News Group welcomes key executives". Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association . Huntingdon. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  17. ↑ "'The power of digital' is key to newspaper company's expansion". The Corry Journal. 2022-02-07. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  18. ↑ "On heels of Herald closure, Sample News Group steps in". The Corry Journal. 2022-11-11. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  19. ↑ "Sample News Group buys 4 publications". Oswego County News Now. 2023-03-22. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  20. ↑ "Sample News Group purchases the Batavia Daily News, Livingston County News". Livingston County News. 2023-03-23. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  21. ↑ "Sample News Group acquires the Batavia (New York) Daily News and Livingston County News". National Newspaper Association . April 13, 2023. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  22. ↑ "Sample News Group acquires Bee Newspaper Group of Suburban Buffalo". The Daily News. 2024-11-12. Retrieved 2024-11-12.
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