Gannett, Gatehouse talking merger

[MileHigh]

The Little Rock paper doesn't actually print six days a week.* They do an e edition and provide subscribers with an iPad to read it.
The PIne Bluff pages will be inserted into the replica edition in some fashion but probably as its own section. The Sunday paper is printed and I'd assume that the Pine Bluff pages will be a standalone edition stuffed inside Sunday.
It is a misnomer to call it a sale as no money actually changed hands. Little Rock got the flag and liabilities and some assets, and any money they collect in past due bills will go to Gannett.
Gannett keeps the building, which is reportedly the size of a city block, and one would assume it is for sale.
gatehouse/gannett, which once owned nearly 40 papers in Arkansas is down to five.

* the Little Rock paper still prints a couple thousand papers daily but they are exclusively for retail locations. You can't get home delivery there and the only print paper subscribers get is Sunday. It has struggled mightily as Sunday circulation was, circa 2010, around 290,000. It is now 34,000.

The owner of the Colorado Springs Gazette is launching a similar e-edition that is Denver metro-centric, but without providing an iPad. Subscription-based. Announcement was made last Wednesday. This is a new venture and they have been learning from Democrat-Gazette for how they do things with their e-edition that includes rich media (video, photo galleries, etc.). No print edition at all. It launches in mid-September.

Disclaimer: I was recruited for a job there and am part of it. Started nearly two weeks ago and have felt like I'm under a big waterfall. It's a pretty big undertaking.

 

[wicked]

Congrats, MH, happy to see you're back in the saddle.

 

[MileHigh]

Congrats, MH, happy to see you're back in the saddle.

Thanks. It's been ... a lot. We'll see where it goes.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

The Great Gannett Selloff begins.

Big statewide daily in Arkansas buys Gannett-owned paper in Pine Bluff. Bye-bye Commercial.

Gannett sells Pine Bluff Commercial to Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

I'm shocked the Fort Smith and Conway papers weren't included.