Hope for Small-Town Newspapers?


Article in Poynter by Mark Caro, 5/12/25

Headline:   “Tech entrepreneur Jeremy Gulban is betting on small-town newspapers to challenge Big Tech’s media dominance”

Subhead:  “Gulban’s CherryRoad Media is racing to prove that small-town newspapers can survive — while the industry battles Big Tech’s growing control”

“With the 2020 purchase of the Cook County News Herald in Northeast Minnesota, Jeremy Gulban launched the fast-growing CherryRoad Media chain of community newspapers. The company’s portfolio has ballooned to 94 newspapers — all but one print, most weekly — as CEO Gulban tries on the fly to make his business model sustainable for CherryRoad and a greater local news industry working in the shadows of Big Tech. . . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025/cherryroad-media-jeremy-gulban-local-newspapers-mail-print/