Halifax Media Group

{{short description|American newspaper company}}

{{Infobox company

|name = Halifax Media Holdings, LLC

|logo = Halifax Media Group logo.png

|logo_size = 150px

|type = Private

|genre = Newspapers

|foundation = Daytona Beach, Florida, United States {{start date|2010|03|31}}

|location = 2339 Beville Road
Daytona Beach, Florida 32119
United States

|area_served = United States

|industry = Publishing

|products = Northwest Florida Daily News
The Daytona Beach News-Journal
The Gadsden Times
The Gainesville Sun

|owner = Gannett

|homepage = {{URL|http://www.halifaxmediagroup.com/}}

|footnotes ={{cite press release | title=News-Journal Acquisition | url=http://www.halifaxmediagroup.com/press-releases/news-journal-acquisition/ | date=2010-03-31 | publisher=Halifax Media Group | access-date=2012-02-28 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120808001901/http://www.halifaxmediagroup.com/press-releases/news-journal-acquisition/ | archive-date=2012-08-08}}{{cite press release | url=http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=105317&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1642727&highlight= | title=The New York Times Company Agrees to Sell Its Regional Media Group to Halifax Media Holdings LLC | date=2011-12-27 | access-date=2012-02-28 | publisher=The New York Times Company}}{{cite web | url=http://www.halifaxmediagroup.com/contact/ | title=Contact Us – Halifax Media Group | year=2011 | access-date=2012-02-29 | publisher=Halifax Media Group}}

}}

Halifax Media Group was an American newspaper company owning more than 30 newspapers in five Southeastern U.S. States. It was founded on March 31, 2010, when a group of investors purchased The Daytona Beach News-Journal from the Davidson family, who had owned it for 82 years. On December 27, 2011, The New York Times Company announced it was selling its Regional Media Group to Halifax Media Group. On June 1, 2012, Halifax announced it was acquiring the Florida and North Carolina papers of Freedom Communications.[http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/175942/halifax-media-buys-more-florida-newspapers/ Halifax Media buys more Florida, North Carolina newspapers] In 2013, Halifax acquired three newspapers from HarborPoint Media:[http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20130930/BUSINESS/130939956 Halifax Media Group purchases three Florida newspapers] the Daily Commercial of Leesburg, Florida, the South Lake Press in Clermont, Florida and News-Sun of Sebring, Florida.Daytona Beach – Halifax Media Group November 2013 Florida Trend page 42 In 2014, Halifax acquired the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester, Massachusetts.{{Cite news | last=Sutner | first=Shaun | title=Halifax Media of Florida to buy Telegram & Gazette | work=Telegram & Gazette | access-date=2014-06-13 | date=2014-05-21 | url=http://www.telegram.com/article/20140521/NEWS/305219465/1053}} In November 2014, New Media Investment Group announced its acquisition of Halifax.{{Cite news | title=T&G's parent company is sold to New Media, parent of GateHouse Media | work=Worcester Telegram & Gazette | access-date=2014-12-21 | date=2014-11-20 | url=http://www.telegram.com/article/20141120/NEWS/311209561/1116}} The company was created with the assistance of Stephens Inc.

In 2015, GateHouse Media purchased the 36 newspapers then owned by Halifax Media.{{Cite news | last=Swisher | first=Skyler | date=January 9, 2015 | title=GateHouse acquires News-Journal, Halifax Media | url=https://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20150109/News/605049176 | access-date=2020-07-17 | work=Daytona Beach News-Journal | language=en | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820172718/http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/LK/20150109/News/605049176/DN/ | archive-date=August 20, 2018}} In 2019, GateHouse Media merged with Gannett, Inc., owner of the USA Today and more than 100 other daily newspapers.