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American publisher of newspapers

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.

History

Sample News Group was founded by George Raymond Sample, Jr. (1924–2008). Sample was married to a woman named Janet. As of October 2022, George "Scoop" Sample (né George Raymond Sample III; born 1952), one of eight children of George Sample Jr., is the CEO. Scoop's hometown is Corry, Pennsylvania. The group is also actively managed by Scoop's wife, Marlene Sample (aka "Sissie" Kane; née Marlene Sue 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.

In 2018, Sample purchased The Times Record and the Journal Tribune from Reade Brower. That same year, Sample acquired two dailies in Vermont, sister papers Rutland Herald and The Times Argus, purchasing them from Vermont Community Media, a company partially owned by Brower. Two other weeklies and some websites were also included in the sale. Brower's company had acquired the two dailies as well as the Rutland Reader and the Central Vermont Reader in 2016; they are now both owned by Sample. Also in 2018, Sample sold its Chester, Vermont paper The Message for the Week to KMA Publishing, who ended its publication.

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. later in 2022, the Titusville News-Journal was started by Sample.

The Batavia Daily News and Livingston County News of Livingston County, New York and Genesee County, New York were purchased in 2023, from the Watertown, New York–based Johnson Newspaper Corporation.

In November 2024, the company acquired Bee Group Newspapers from the Measer family.

Publications

The group, as listed on their website in October 2023, owns the following:

Dailies

New York

Pennsylvania

Vermont

Weeklies

New Jersey

New York

Pennsylvania

Vermont

Business

Pennsylvania

Lifestyle

Pennsylvania

  • Centered: Life in Balance (State College)
  • State College Magazine (State College)

Shopping

New York

Pennsylvania

References

  1. "Contact Information". Sample News Group. Retrieved 2023-10-05.
  2. 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.
  3. "About". citizenstandard.com. The Citizen-Standard. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  4. "Longtime journalist, publisher Sample dies at 84". Meadville Tribune. Associated Press. 2008-06-18. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  5. "George R. Sample '46". Penn State Behrend. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  6. Mertz, Kevin (2022-10-21). "Sample News Group CEO honored". The News-Item. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  7. "George "Scoop" Sample". PA Business Central/Marcellus Business Central/Women in Business. 2017-01-27. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  8. "Huntingdon Newspaper Is Purchased". The Times-Tribune. Associated Press. October 27, 1991. p. A-12.
  9. Keyes, Bob (2018-03-23). "Press Herald owner Reade Brower will acquire newspapers in Biddeford and Brunswick". Portland Press Herald. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  10. Delcore, David (2018-03-22). "Rutland Herald and Times Argus to be sold — again". Rutland Herald. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  11. Meyn, Colin (2018-03-22). "Herald and Times Argus sold to family-owned Sample News Group". VTDigger. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  12. "Sample News Group purchases Rutland Herald". The Eagle Times. 2018-03-23. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  13. "Courier owner buys pair of Vermont papers". Courier-Gazette. 2016-08-11. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  14. "Sample News Group Publication List". Sample News Group. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
  15. Cunningham, Shawn; Prairie, Cynthia (April 27, 2018). "Message closed; sale to Vermont Journal expected". The Chester Telegraph. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  16. "Sample News Group welcomes key executives". Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association. Huntingdon. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  17. "'The power of digital' is key to newspaper company's expansion". The Corry Journal. 2022-02-07. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  18. "On heels of Herald closure, Sample News Group steps in". The Corry Journal. 2022-11-11. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  19. "Sample News Group buys 4 publications". Oswego County News Now. 2023-03-22. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  20. "Sample News Group purchases the Batavia Daily News, Livingston County News". Livingston County News. 2023-03-23. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  21. "Sample News Group acquires the Batavia (New York) Daily News and Livingston County News". National Newspaper Association. April 13, 2023. Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  22. "Sample News Group acquires Bee Newspaper Group of Suburban Buffalo". The Daily News. 2024-11-12. Retrieved 2024-11-12.
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