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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Times Herald, Other Local Papers Await Bankruptcy Sale

Journal Register Company, which owns six daily newspapers in the Philadelphia region, filed for bankruptcy in September. The new owner may not retain all the current employees.

The Times Herald of Norristown, the Pottstown Mercury, and the Lansdale Reporter will have a new owner in April, pending a judge's approval of the company's bankruptcy sale. The Associated Press reports that Journal Register Company has sought a judge's approval to be purchased by 21st CMH Acquisition Co., an affiliate of current owner Alden Capital, for about $120 million. 21st CMH Acquisition Co. was the sole bidder in an auction to purchase the Bucks County-based company, which filed for bankruptcy last September. The company had previously filed for bankruptcy in 2009. CEO John Paton cited onerous building leases and other "legacy obligations" as a factor in the most recent bankruptcy filing. Citing an article in the New Haven Register…

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Journal Register Co. Files for Chapter 11

The owner of The Reporter in Lansdale, The Mercury in Pottstown and The Times Herald in Norristown will be sold promptly, according to reports.

Digital First Media announced Wednesday that its subsidiary Journal Register Company is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the second time since 2009. JRC operates The Reporter in Lansdale, The Mercury in Pottstown and The Times Herald in Norristown, among other local papers. JRC filed voluntary petitions for Chapter 11 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York and "will seek to implement a prompt sale," according to Digital First Media. Digital First Media operates MediaNews Group and Digital First Ventures. According to a press release from Digital First Media, the auction and sale would take 90 days. Digital First has reportedly signed a stalking horse bid for JRC from 21st CMH Acquisition Co., an affiliate of the …

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12:57 pm on Monday, September 17, 2012

The Times Herald was purchased by Journal Register when Owner Peter Strassburger died back in the early 90's. The TIme Herald was an evening newspaper because we could not compete with the Inquirer in the morning. But Journal Register said that people don't read evening newspapers and that's when the subscriber's jumped ship. The TIme Herald I believe was the 2nd oldest newspaper in the country …   more ›

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Patch Editor Named Reporter Executive Editor

Ann Cornell, an alumnus of Lansdale Catholic, will take over as head of The Reporter Newspaper in Lansdale on June 4

Meet the new boss. Perkiomen Valley Patch Editor Ann Cornell has been hired as the new editor-in-chief of The Reporter Newspaper in Lansdale. Cornell will replace former executive editor Nona Breaux, who retired as editor-in-chief in December 2011 after 38 years. The Lansdale Catholic graduate begins her new venture on June 4. "It's a new challenge for me," Cornell said. "Why I came to Patch was to learn more and have an opportunity to be back in the field, do reporting and embrace the new direction journalism is taking." Cornell holds a bachelors in journalism from Temple University, graduating in 2005.  From 2005 to 2010, Cornell worked at The Times Herald in Norristown, beginning as a copy editor and working her way up to news editor. …

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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Times Herald Plunges Into the Cloud

Norristown's daily paper leads the way for parent company JRC's digital efforts.

According to News & Tech, a trade publication for the newspaper industry, Norristown's own Times Herald will be the first of parent company Journal Register Company's (JRC) daily newspapers to begin using a cloud-based version of content management and publication software by Saxotech Mediaware Center. What does that mean for Times Herald readers? Probably not much difference in the daily paper (though apparently they've had some issues with stories re-running by accident) and a few bugs in the website as they get the new system up and running (Editor Stan Huskey addressed these issues in a recent editorial.) But the real difference may be how you get your news from The Herald in the future. The new system is part of a new initiative to …

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