Sample News Group Explained

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 (; born 1952), 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; ; born 1951).

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

Pennsylvania

Vermont

Weeklies

Pennsylvania

Vermont

Business

Pennsylvania

Lifestyle

Pennsylvania

Shopping

Pennsylvania

References

  1. Web site: Contact Information . 2023-10-05 . . en-US.
  2. English . Phil . Phil English . July 30, 2008 . 154 Cong. Rec. 17775 - HONORING THE LIFE OF GEORGE R. SAMPLE, JR. . . 154 . 13 . 17775–17776. Also available via Congress.gov.
  3. Web site: About . 2023-10-07 . citizenstandard.com . The Citizen-Standard . en-US.
  4. Web site: 2008-06-18 . Longtime journalist, publisher Sample dies at 84 . 2023-10-13 . . en . Associated Press.
  5. Web site: George R. Sample ’46 . 2023-10-07 . Penn State Behrend . en.
  6. Web site: Mertz . Kevin . 2022-10-21 . Sample News Group CEO honored . 2023-10-07 . . en.
  7. Web site: 2017-01-27 . George “Scoop” Sample . 2023-10-13 . PA Business Central/Marcellus Business Central/Women in Business.
  8. News: October 27, 1991 . [//newspapers.com/article/the-times-tribune-huntingdon-newspaper-i/133391772/ Huntingdon Newspaper Is Purchased ]. A-12 . . .
  9. Web site: Keyes . Bob . 2018-03-23 . Press Herald owner Reade Brower will acquire newspapers in Biddeford and Brunswick . 2023-10-13 . Portland Press Herald.
  10. Web site: Delcore . David . 2018-03-22 . Rutland Herald and Times Argus to be sold — again . 2023-10-07 . . en.
  11. Web site: Meyn . Colin . 2018-03-22 . Herald and Times Argus sold to family-owned Sample News Group . 2023-10-07 . VTDigger . en-US.
  12. Web site: 2018-03-23 . Sample News Group purchases Rutland Herald . 2023-10-07 . The Eagle Times . en.
  13. Web site: 2016-08-11 . Courier owner buys pair of Vermont papers . 2023-10-07 . Courier-Gazette . en.
  14. Web site: Sample News Group Publication List . 2023-10-06 . . en-US.
  15. Web site: Cunningham . Shawn . Prairie . Cynthia . April 27, 2018 . Message closed; sale to Vermont Journal expected . 2023-10-13 . The Chester Telegraph.
  16. Web site: Sample News Group welcomes key executives . 2023-10-13 . . Huntingdon . en-US.
  17. Web site: 2022-02-07 . ‘The power of digital’ is key to newspaper company’s expansion . 2023-10-13 . The Corry Journal . en.
  18. Web site: 2022-11-11 . On heels of Herald closure, Sample News Group steps in . 2023-10-13 . The Corry Journal . en.
  19. Web site: 2023-03-22 . Sample News Group buys 4 publications . 2023-10-13 . Oswego County News Now . en.
  20. Web site: 2023-03-23 . Sample News Group purchases the Batavia Daily News, Livingston County News . 2023-10-13 . Livingston County News . en.
  21. Web site: April 13, 2023 . Sample News Group acquires the Batavia (New York) Daily News and Livingston County News . 2023-10-13 . . en.

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