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]
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]
Publications
The group, as listed on their website in October 2023, owns the following:
Dailies
New York
Pennsylvania
- Bedford Gazette ( Bedford)
- Indiana Gazette ( Indiana)
- Mature Living (Indiana)
- Westmoreland Homes (Indiana)
- Indiana Property (Indiana)
- The Shopper's Guide (Indiana)
- The Daily News ( Huntingdon)
- Gettysburg Times ( Gettysburg)
- The News Item ( Shamokin)
- The Review ( Towanda)
- Latrobe Bulletin ( Latrobe)
- Monthly Values (Latrobe)
- Morning Times ( Sayre)
- Corry Journal ( Corry)
- Standard Journal ( Milton)
- The Daily Herald ( Tyrone)
- The Leader Times ( Kittanning)
- Monthly Values (Kittanning)
- The Daily Courier ( Connellsville)
- Mature Living (Connellsville)
Vermont
Weeklies
New Jersey
- Somers Point Sentinel ( Somers Point)
- Upper Township Sentinel ( Upper Township)
- Ocean City Sentinel ( Ocean City)
- Ocean City Sure Guide (Ocean City)
- Cape May Star and Wave ( Cape May)
- Cape May/Wildwood Sure Guide (Cape May)
New York
Pennsylvania
- Mercersburg Journal ( Mercersburg)
- Philipsburg Weekender ( Philipsburg)
- North East News Journal ( North East)
- The Farmers Friend ( Towanda)
- Mainline Extra ( Ebensburg)
- The Star-Courier ( Northern Cambria)
- The Dispatch ( Portage)
- The Mainliner ( Cresson)
- Mountaineer Herald (Ebensburg)
- The Journal ( Nanty Glo)
- Union City Express ( Union City)
- Titusville News-Journal ( Titusville)
- Forest County News Journal ( Tionesta)
- Susquehanna County Weekender ( Montrose)
- Susquehanna County Independent (Montrose)
- Shippensburg News Chronicle ( Shippensburg)
- The Citizens Standard ( Valley View)
- The Valley Times-Star ( Newville)
- The Valley Log ( Orbisonia)
- Broad Top Bulletin ( Broad Top)
- West County News-Journal ( Girard)
- The Blairsville Dispatch ( Blairsville)
- The Mt. Pleasant Journal ( Mount Pleasant)
- The Independent Observer ( Scottdale)
- The Ligonier Echo ( Ligonier)
Vermont
Business
Pennsylvania
- Marcellus Business Central ( State College)
- Pennsylvania Business Central (State College)
- Pennsylvania Business Woman (State College)
Lifestyle
Pennsylvania
- Centered: Life in Balance ( State College)
- State College Magazine (State College)
Shopping
New York
Pennsylvania
- Bargain Street ( State College, Pennsylvania)
- Shoppers Guide ( Everett)
- Warren County Guide ( Warren)
- Trader ( Kittanning– Ebensburg)
- Your Local Auto (Kittanning–Ebensburg)
References
- ^ "Contact Information". Sample News Group. Retrieved 2023-10-05.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "About". citizenstandard.com. The Citizen-Standard. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- ^ "Longtime journalist, publisher Sample dies at 84". Meadville Tribune. Associated Press. 2008-06-18. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
- ^ "George R. Sample '46". Penn State Behrend. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- ^ Mertz, Kevin (2022-10-21). "Sample News Group CEO honored". The News-Item. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- ^ "George "Scoop" Sample". PA Business Central/Marcellus Business Central/Women in Business. 2017-01-27. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
- ^ "Huntingdon Newspaper Is Purchased". The Times-Tribune. Associated Press. October 27, 1991. p. A-12.
- ^ Keyes, Bob (2018-03-23). "Press Herald owner Reade Brower will acquire newspapers in Biddeford and Brunswick". Portland Press Herald. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
- ^ Delcore, David (2018-03-22). "Rutland Herald and Times Argus to be sold — again". Rutland Herald. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- ^ Meyn, Colin (2018-03-22). "Herald and Times Argus sold to family-owned Sample News Group". VTDigger. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- ^ "Sample News Group purchases Rutland Herald". The Eagle Times. 2018-03-23. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- ^ "Courier owner buys pair of Vermont papers". Courier-Gazette. 2016-08-11. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- ^ "Sample News Group Publication List". Sample News Group. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
- ^ Cunningham, Shawn; Prairie, Cynthia (April 27, 2018). "Message closed; sale to Vermont Journal expected". The Chester Telegraph. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
- ^ "Sample News Group welcomes key executives". Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association. Huntingdon. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
- ^ "'The power of digital' is key to newspaper company's expansion". The Corry Journal. 2022-02-07. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
- ^ "On heels of Herald closure, Sample News Group steps in". The Corry Journal. 2022-11-11. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
- ^ "Sample News Group buys 4 publications". Oswego County News Now. 2023-03-22. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
- ^ "Sample News Group purchases the Batavia Daily News, Livingston County News". Livingston County News. 2023-03-23. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
- ^ "Sample News Group acquires the Batavia (New York) Daily News and Livingston County News". National Newspaper Association. April 13, 2023. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
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]
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]
Publications
The group, as listed on their website in October 2023, owns the following:
Dailies
New York
Pennsylvania
- Bedford Gazette ( Bedford)
- Indiana Gazette ( Indiana)
- Mature Living (Indiana)
- Westmoreland Homes (Indiana)
- Indiana Property (Indiana)
- The Shopper's Guide (Indiana)
- The Daily News ( Huntingdon)
- Gettysburg Times ( Gettysburg)
- The News Item ( Shamokin)
- The Review ( Towanda)
- Latrobe Bulletin ( Latrobe)
- Monthly Values (Latrobe)
- Morning Times ( Sayre)
- Corry Journal ( Corry)
- Standard Journal ( Milton)
- The Daily Herald ( Tyrone)
- The Leader Times ( Kittanning)
- Monthly Values (Kittanning)
- The Daily Courier ( Connellsville)
- Mature Living (Connellsville)
Vermont
Weeklies
New Jersey
- Somers Point Sentinel ( Somers Point)
- Upper Township Sentinel ( Upper Township)
- Ocean City Sentinel ( Ocean City)
- Ocean City Sure Guide (Ocean City)
- Cape May Star and Wave ( Cape May)
- Cape May/Wildwood Sure Guide (Cape May)
New York
Pennsylvania
- Mercersburg Journal ( Mercersburg)
- Philipsburg Weekender ( Philipsburg)
- North East News Journal ( North East)
- The Farmers Friend ( Towanda)
- Mainline Extra ( Ebensburg)
- The Star-Courier ( Northern Cambria)
- The Dispatch ( Portage)
- The Mainliner ( Cresson)
- Mountaineer Herald (Ebensburg)
- The Journal ( Nanty Glo)
- Union City Express ( Union City)
- Titusville News-Journal ( Titusville)
- Forest County News Journal ( Tionesta)
- Susquehanna County Weekender ( Montrose)
- Susquehanna County Independent (Montrose)
- Shippensburg News Chronicle ( Shippensburg)
- The Citizens Standard ( Valley View)
- The Valley Times-Star ( Newville)
- The Valley Log ( Orbisonia)
- Broad Top Bulletin ( Broad Top)
- West County News-Journal ( Girard)
- The Blairsville Dispatch ( Blairsville)
- The Mt. Pleasant Journal ( Mount Pleasant)
- The Independent Observer ( Scottdale)
- The Ligonier Echo ( Ligonier)
Vermont
Business
Pennsylvania
- Marcellus Business Central ( State College)
- Pennsylvania Business Central (State College)
- Pennsylvania Business Woman (State College)
Lifestyle
Pennsylvania
- Centered: Life in Balance ( State College)
- State College Magazine (State College)
Shopping
New York
Pennsylvania
- Bargain Street ( State College, Pennsylvania)
- Shoppers Guide ( Everett)
- Warren County Guide ( Warren)
- Trader ( Kittanning– Ebensburg)
- Your Local Auto (Kittanning–Ebensburg)
References
- ^ "Contact Information". Sample News Group. Retrieved 2023-10-05.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "About". citizenstandard.com. The Citizen-Standard. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- ^ "Longtime journalist, publisher Sample dies at 84". Meadville Tribune. Associated Press. 2008-06-18. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
- ^ "George R. Sample '46". Penn State Behrend. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- ^ Mertz, Kevin (2022-10-21). "Sample News Group CEO honored". The News-Item. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- ^ "George "Scoop" Sample". PA Business Central/Marcellus Business Central/Women in Business. 2017-01-27. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
- ^ "Huntingdon Newspaper Is Purchased". The Times-Tribune. Associated Press. October 27, 1991. p. A-12.
- ^ Keyes, Bob (2018-03-23). "Press Herald owner Reade Brower will acquire newspapers in Biddeford and Brunswick". Portland Press Herald. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
- ^ Delcore, David (2018-03-22). "Rutland Herald and Times Argus to be sold — again". Rutland Herald. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- ^ Meyn, Colin (2018-03-22). "Herald and Times Argus sold to family-owned Sample News Group". VTDigger. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- ^ "Sample News Group purchases Rutland Herald". The Eagle Times. 2018-03-23. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- ^ "Courier owner buys pair of Vermont papers". Courier-Gazette. 2016-08-11. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- ^ "Sample News Group Publication List". Sample News Group. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
- ^ Cunningham, Shawn; Prairie, Cynthia (April 27, 2018). "Message closed; sale to Vermont Journal expected". The Chester Telegraph. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
- ^ "Sample News Group welcomes key executives". Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association. Huntingdon. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
- ^ "'The power of digital' is key to newspaper company's expansion". The Corry Journal. 2022-02-07. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
- ^ "On heels of Herald closure, Sample News Group steps in". The Corry Journal. 2022-11-11. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
- ^ "Sample News Group buys 4 publications". Oswego County News Now. 2023-03-22. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
- ^ "Sample News Group purchases the Batavia Daily News, Livingston County News". Livingston County News. 2023-03-23. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
- ^ "Sample News Group acquires the Batavia (New York) Daily News and Livingston County News". National Newspaper Association. April 13, 2023. Retrieved 2023-10-13.