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15 02, 2023

D’Orlando Joins Wick Communications as COO

2023-02-14T10:58:00-07:00February 15th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

John D'Orlando has been named chief operating officer of Wick Communications. D’Orlando, 61, spent more than five years as president and publisher of the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, and has served as vice president/advertising director of the Orlando Sentinel Media Group in Orlando, Florida.  As COO he will be responsible for additional support and oversight to operations, transformative projects and financial execution. “I’m thrilled to have the [...]

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9 01, 2023

Ellis named CFO for Wick Communications

2023-01-09T15:04:05-07:00January 9th, 2023|Tags: , , |

Susan Ellis Susan Ellis has been named chief financial officer for Wick Communications, owner of the Green Valley News and Sahuarita Sun. Wick has media operations in 13 western states, and Ellis said addressing the challenges of community newspapers and how Wick has approached that is a big part of what drew her to the position. “It’s not a company that’s standing still,” Ellis said. “It’s [...]

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22 09, 2022

River City Newspapers expands its market with new acquisitions

2022-09-22T10:03:16-07:00September 22nd, 2022|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Lake Havasu City-based River City Newspapers will acquire the Mohave Valley Daily News and the Kingman Miner in a move that strengthens the company’s holdings in Mohave County and Northwestern Arizona. The company is acquiring the Mohave Valley Daily News from San Diego, Calif.-based Brehm Communications. The deal with Brehm also includes three weekly newspapers, the Wickenburg Sun, Laughlin Times and Needles Desert Star along with a direct [...]

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18 01, 2022

Robert Wick filled multiple roles, touched many hearts

2022-01-18T11:50:39-07:00January 18th, 2022|

Bob Wick – father, husband, son, brother, artist, environmentalist, friend, newspaper publisher, teacher – died Jan. 13, 2022 after a fight with cancer and subsequent heart attack. Wick was co-owner with his older brother, Walter M. Wick, of Wick Communications, a three-generation multi-media company that has operations in 11 states. Wick and his spouse of 42 years, Estellean Wick, have lived in Sierra Vista, Ariz., since meeting in [...]

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17 11, 2021

Capital Journal selected for Meta Reader Revenue Accelerator

2022-04-05T12:57:11-07:00November 17th, 2021|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

The Meta Journalism Project announced Wednesday that The Capital Journal has been selected to participate in the 2021-22 U.S. Reader Revenue Accelerator program.  The program offers publishers training opportunities, tools and a grant to grow their subscription or membership businesses. Meta, which is Facebook’s parent company, has trained over 100 U.S. publishers through the Accelerator program since its launch in 2018. The Capital Journal has been the paper [...]

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16 11, 2021

Google announces funding for Wick, ASU’s Cronkite School research project

2022-01-17T13:39:04-07:00November 16th, 2021|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Wick Communications is partnering with Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication on a project supported by Google to research strategies for facilitating healthy online discourse.  The Voices Listening Project, one of 25 included in the Google News Initiative's third North America Innovation Challenge, was announced Tuesday. Over the next year, the two organizations will engage with local communities to understand their needs and [...]

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5 11, 2021

Wick Communications names Scott Green as Production Manager

2021-11-05T16:18:15-07:00November 5th, 2021|

Francis Wick, CEO, announced on Wednesday that Scott Green has returned to Wick Communications as Wick Production Manager, effective November 1, 2021. Green will also serve as Lead Pressman at the Sierra Vista Herald. Green returns to Wick Communications from Swift Media Group, Gypsum Colorado where he implemented many new processes at Colorado Mountain News Media.  Green has over 38 years of experience in the production environment beginning [...]

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27 08, 2021

McCloud promoted to MyHeraldReview Multimedia Sales Manager

2021-08-27T14:17:58-07:00August 27th, 2021|

Herald/Review Media is pleased to announce the promotion of Alycia McCloud to Multimedia Sales Manager. McCloud replaces Kelsey Laggan who relocated to Clarksville, TN. Laggan has been crucial to the success of the Herald/Review multimedia specialist team for the past three years and worked closely with McCloud. McCloud began her career with Herald/Review Media in May of 2018 as the Digital Marketing Specialist and has become a digital [...]

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18 05, 2021

Wick Communications’ NABUR project receives national recognition

2021-05-18T13:29:17-07:00May 18th, 2021|

NABUR, our innovative online forum, is seeing a lot of success and getting plenty of national recognition. It recently received two top honors from the Local Media Association. Best Social Media and Engagement Strategy Best Digital Audience Growth Strategy Read about them here; you’ll see that nobody in the industry is doing anything close to this. Congrats to Sean Fitzpatrick, Alessia Alaimo and Reilly Kneedler for their good [...]

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17 05, 2021

Selby joins Wick Communications board

2021-05-17T13:19:01-07:00May 17th, 2021|Tags: , , , , , |

John R. “Jack” Selby has joined the Board of Directors for Wick Communications, the parent company of the Sierra Vista Herald/Review. Selby is managing director at Thiel Capital in Los Angeles, and was an original employee with PayPal, where he eventually became a corporate officer/senior vice president overseeing the company’s international and corporate operations. Selby is involved with several companies, including SpaceX, Palantir, Affirm, Blend, Bird and Openspace, [...]

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19 03, 2021

Wick Community Journalists Earn Perfect Score as Trusted News Sites

2021-04-28T15:56:40-07:00March 19th, 2021|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

  Nutrition Label for Wick Communications   NewsGuard, a journalism and technology company that rates the credibility of news and information websites, has collectively awarded 22 Wick Communications websites and their associated newsrooms a perfect 100 out of 100 score for credibility and transparency. In stating that Wick Communications’ community news coverage “generally takes a neutral tone” and that sites clearly label opinion content, NewsGuard said, [...]

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2 03, 2021

Daily Leader joins Wick Communications

2021-03-02T09:56:08-07:00March 2nd, 2021|Tags: , , , , , |

The Madison Daily Leader, a business started in Lake County more than 140 years ago, will be joining Wick Communications, a family-owned newspaper group. FRANCIS WICK (left), president and CEO of Arizona-based Wick Communications, poses with Jon Hunter, publisher of The Madison Daily Leader and head of Leader Printing, next to the Madison newspaper's web press on Monday. Hunter announced that The Daily Leader is joining Wick [...]

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14 10, 2020

The Argus welcomes new leader

2020-10-14T14:43:31-07:00October 14th, 2020|

WESTERN TREASURE VALLEY Brad Bailey is the new publisher of The Argus Observer in Ontario, and its sister publication, the Independent-Enterprise in Payette, which now prints inside the Argus. This month, he will celebrate 29 years in newspapering. Before taking the opportunity to come to Ontario, his most recent assignment was as general manager for three newspapers in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area. Prior to that, Bailey was publisher [...]

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14 10, 2020

Sean Flaherty named publisher at The Wenatchee World

2020-10-14T12:28:37-07:00October 14th, 2020|

WENATCHEE — Sean Flaherty has been named publisher of The Wenatchee World. Flaherty, 56, has been serving as the paper’s general manager since June 2019. He joined the operation as advertising director in April 2018. The announcement of Flaherty’s new role was made Friday by Francis Wick, president and CEO of Arizona-based Wick Communications, which purchased the newspaper from the Woods family in 2018. The company owns 27 [...]

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7 10, 2020

Local Media Association profiles Wick’s NABUR project.

2020-10-07T11:34:40-07:00October 7th, 2020|

With new hyperlocal platform, Wick Communications asks its readers: Won’t you be my NABUR?   Local Media Association is profiling some of the first Google News Initiative Innovation Challenge winners in North America and how they’re putting funding to work developing sustainable business models, diversifying revenue streams, and increasing audience engagement. Read Full Article on LMA site Webinar from Sept. 29:

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27 07, 2020

Romney named new chair of Wick Communications

2020-07-27T13:24:13-07:00July 27th, 2020|Tags: , , |

John Romney said what has worked for newspapers in the past will work for them in the future — connect with audiences and report relevant, engaging stories. Figuring out how to do it successfully on a rapidly evolving digital platform is an ongoing challenge but offers significant opportunities. Romney, who joined the Wick Communications Board of Directors in 2017, became chairman in March. He spent 35 years working [...]

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13 03, 2020

What ‘death of the newspaper’ stories leave out

2020-03-13T11:17:08-07:00March 13th, 2020|

By Ryan Binkley and Francis Wick You may have recently learned—from a newspaper, perhaps—that McClatchy, one of the largest newspaper publishers in the country, filed for bankruptcy protection. For the sky-is-falling industry observers, it’s the latest sign that newspapers are joining the horse and buggy in the broom closet of nostalgia and obscurity. There is no room for the printed news, they would tell you. Not in a [...]

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5 03, 2020

Kim Smith named editor of the Eastern Arizona Courier, The Copper Era and the Arizona Range News

2020-03-05T09:58:41-07:00March 5th, 2020|Tags: , , , , , |

Kim Smith SAFFORD – Kim Smith has been named editor of the Eastern Arizona Courier in Safford, The Copper Era in Greenlee County and the Arizona Range News in Willcox. She begins her duties March 9.  Smith, 53, graduated from the University of Arizona with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and has reported for newspapers in Arizona, Texas and Nevada. She has spent the last three years [...]

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6 02, 2020

Reilly Kneedler Named Wick Digital Audience Editor

2020-02-06T10:55:57-07:00February 6th, 2020|Tags: , , , , |

Wenatchee World staff writer Reilly Kneedler has been named to the newly created role of Wick digital audience editor. While the position is new to Wick Communications, the role has been an integral part of the success that larger news organizations such as The Washington Post have had in growing their digital subscriptions to support the newsrooms that provide the essential service of local journalism to their communities.  [...]

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29 01, 2020

Keith named new publisher for Courier, Copper Era, Range News

2020-01-29T10:46:46-07:00January 29th, 2020|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Sarah Keith SAFFORD — The newspapers serving Graham and Greenlee counties, as well as Willcox, have new leadership. On Tuesday, Wick Communications announced that Sarah Keith would be assuming the duties as publisher of Eastern Arizona Courier, Copper Era, and Arizona Range News newspapers, effective immediately. “I am looking forward to becoming part of the community, learning more about the area and the wonderful people that make [...]

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25 10, 2019

Google Announces Funding for Wick’s Innovative Social Media Community Project

2019-10-26T22:42:27-07:00October 25th, 2019|Tags: , , , , , , |

Google announced this morning it is providing funding for Wick Communications’ innovative initiative to create a journalist-curated, hyperlocal social media platform to develop critical community connections. The news came as part of Google’s larger announcement of recipients of its inaugural North America Google News Initiative (GNI) Challenge funding to support projects that drive digital innovation and develop new business models. The GNI is funding 34 projects, selected from a [...]

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1 09, 2019

Daily Iberian moves to historic downtown

2020-01-03T09:49:30-07:00September 1st, 2019|

A new chapter in Teche Area local media started this weekend when The Daily Iberian and Acadiana Lifestyle have moved out of their respective offices and relocated in the heart of downtown New Iberia. Staff for both publications, which are owned by Wick Communications, have been working for the past several weeks to move technology, furniture and office supplies, not to mention the decades of archives that were [...]

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26 06, 2019

Nogales International tops in local news coverage in national contest

2019-09-30T20:11:34-07:00June 26th, 2019|

The Nogales International won first place in its division for Best Local News Coverage when theNational Newspaper Association announced the winners of its 2019 Better Newspaper Contest last week. “This newspaper's coverage of tensions at an international border sets it apart from other community newspapers,” the judges’ comments stated. “The news writing is thorough, compelling and detailed.” It was one of four awards won by the paper and [...]

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21 06, 2019

Diana Hermes advertising manager of the Wahpeton, North Dakota

2019-07-03T12:54:43-07:00June 21st, 2019|Tags: , , , |

Daily News and News Monitor Publisher Tara Klostreich has named Diana Hermes advertising manager of the Wahpeton, North Dakota, operation, effective June 18. “I am pleased to announce the promotion of Diana Hermes to advertising manager of the Daily News and News Monitor,” Klostreich said. “She has done an excellent job leading the advertising department and is ready for the next step.” Hermes joined the Daily News in [...]

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2 05, 2019

Wick Communications acquires The Delta County Independent from longtime owners

2019-05-06T16:48:19-07:00May 2nd, 2019|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Stakeholders in the purchase of the Delta County Independent stand in front of the Meeker Street newspaper office Tuesday afternoon. From left, they are Delta County Independent production manager Ron Sunderland, former DCI co-owner Pat Sunderland, Wick Communications CEO Francis Wick, Montrose Daily Press/DCI publisher Dennis Anderson, Bob Wick, former DCI co-owner Randy Sunderland and DCI advertising director Roxanne McCormick.     www.deltacountyindependent.com The Delta County [...]

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17 10, 2018

Quincy Valley Post-Register earns awards

2018-10-17T16:30:15-07:00October 17th, 2018|Tags: , , , , |

  The Quincy Valley Post-Register, a recently acquired Wick Communications weekly newspaper in central Washington, won several awards in the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association competition in October. The paper also has been named 2018 Business of the Year by the Quincy Valley Chamber of Commerce. Washington Newspaper Publishers Association (WNPA) awards: Second place: Topical In-Paper Special Section Second place: Multiple Advertiser Ad, 1 or 2 full pages, Jessica [...]

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9 10, 2018

GV News, Sahuarita Sun win awards in state contest

2018-10-09T22:48:02-07:00October 9th, 2018|Tags: , , , , , |

The Green Valley News and Sahuarita Sun won several awards in its circulation category in the Arizona Newspapers Association contest Saturday. The awards were for work from May 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018, and were handed out at the ANA Fall Convention and Annual Meeting at Wild Horse Pass Hotel and Casino near Chandler. “This year's awards are a testament to the hard work put in by [...]

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