• by Ray Schultz , September 24, 2021

Gannett, continuing its pattern of selling off local periodicals, has cut a deal with CherryRoad Media Inc. to acquire 20 Midwestern newspapers, the companies have announced. Terms were not disclosed. 

CherryRoad Media Inc. is a subsidiary of CherryRoad Technologies, a New Jersey-based technology company, according to one of the papers, the Kansas-based Hay Daily News.  

The newspapers are in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri. They include:  

1. Pratt (Kansas) Tribune 
2. Kiowa County (Kansas) Signal 
3. Hiawatha (Kansas) Penny Press 
4. Butler County (Kansas) Times-Gazette 
5.  McPherson (Kansas) Sentinel 
6. The Leavenworth (Kansas) Times 
7. Wellington (Kansas) Daily News 
8. Dodge City (Kansas) Daily Globe 
9. Newton (Kansas) Kansan 
10. Garden City (Kansas) Telegram 
11. St. John (Kansas) News 
12. Hays (Kansas) Daily News 
13. Ottawa (Kansas) Herald 
14. Nebraska City (Nebraska) News Press 
15. Syracuse (Nebraska) Journal-Democrat 
16. Hamburg (Iowa) Reporter 
17. Independence (Missouri) Examiner 
18. Chillicothe (Missouri) Constitution-Tribune 
19. Boonville (Missouri) Daily News 
20. Linn County (Missouri) Leade