Swift Communications Inc. is an American digital marketing and newspaper publishing company based in Carson City, Nevada . Swift's primary markets are resort town tabloid newspapers and websites as well as agricultural publications. Swift Communications has been noted for "being outside of the mainstream" and "drawing national attention inside the industry" for disabling commenting and implementing paywalls on most of its online newspaper's websites. Swift also prints advertorials , catalogs, realtor magazines and phone book advertising.
11-468: Swift Newspapers was founded by Philip Swift in 1975. Swift, a former executive at the Scripps League of Newspapers , exchanged his equity interests in the company for ownership of two daily newspapers, The News-Review and Tahoe Daily Tribune. After dozens of acquisitions and mergers over the years, Swift amassed a large number of print publications and in 1991 the company began concentrating on
22-567: A number of numbers to form a new company called Pioneer Newspapers, Inc. (which later became Pioneer News Group) . This enterprise would be owned and operated by James George Scripps, who was the brother of Scripps League chairman Edward W. Scripps. In May 1976, the partnership between Scripps League Newspapers and Hagadone Newspapers Co. ended after 47 years. Hagadone purchased six newspapers and eleven became fully owned by Scripps. Pulitzer Publishing Company bought Scripps League for about $ 230 million in 1996. In 2005, Lee Enterprises bought
33-622: Is no rush to reinstate user comments — unless they can be made to generate revenue." In Fall of 2011, the Aspen Times re-enabled anonymous commenting for users with an active Facebook account. Swift Communications has been accused of stifling competition and setting artificially inflated ad rates by consolidating and closing small-town newspapers. Steve Lipsher, former editor of the Summit Daily News said in 2008 that "If you're an advertiser in places like Summit County , they're
44-573: The Summit Daily News, wrote a column which criticized the marketing practices of Vail Resorts, one of the paper's largest advertisers. He was fired shortly after the writing the article. Berwyn claimed it was over his column, but the company claimed he was fired over “a series of events.” This firing was widely derided in the Colorado media. "It's unfortunate but, especially in this economy, some advertisers feel like they can flex their muscles when there's commentary that they don't like," says Ed Otte of
55-407: The resort sector by launching Tahoe.com and Reno.com . In 2006, the company changed their name to Swift Communications. On December 31, 2021, Swift Communications was acquired by Ogden Newspapers , a Wheeling, West Virginia -based publisher of daily and weekly newspapers, magazines, telephone directories, and shoppers guides throughout 18 states. In November 2009 Bob Berwyn, a journalist for
66-484: The Colorado Press Association. "Newspapers need to withstand these kinds of threats." In May, 2011 after gathering analytics, metrics and revenue data on their commenting platform investment, Swift reviewed the data and decided to remove the user-generated content (UGC) platform Pluck from all online newspapers owned by Swift Communications. The ability for readers to leave comments about articles
77-582: The Pulitzer newspaper division. Arizona Daily Sun The Arizona Daily Sun is a three day newspaper in Flagstaff, Arizona , United States. It is published on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. It publishes an entertainment supplement on Thursdays called "Flagstaff Live!". It also publishes a monthly magazine, Northern Arizona's Mountain Living Magazine. Artemis E. Fay published
88-442: The first issue of the weekly Peach Springs , Arizona Champion on September 15, 1883. On February 2, 1884, he relocated the paper to Flagstaff. In May 1891, the paper was renamed to The Coconino Sun . On August 5, 1946, the paper was again renamed to the current Arizona Daily Sun . The paper was owned by Scripps League Newspapers , which was acquired by Pulitzer in 1996; Lee Enterprises acquired Pulitzer in 2005. The paper
99-612: The only game in town" and in 2009, Swift-owned newspapers had 90% market share in Eagle County . Swift has also been criticized for over-charging for obituary listings. In late 2008, Colorado Mountain News Media, a subsidiary of Swift, reduced their staff by 20% through attrition, retirement & layoffs , shuttering numerous small town papers. Swift has consolidated many newspapers and closed many others: Scripps League Newspapers, Inc. Scripps League Newspapers, Inc.
110-865: Was a newspaper publishing company in the United States founded by Josephine Scripps in 1921 and managed beginning in 1931 by her son Ed Scripps (1909–1997). Based in Herndon, Virginia , the chain was separate from the larger E. W. Scripps Company begun by Ed's grandfather, Edward Willis Scripps . The chain eventually grew to 51 small newspapers including The Daily Herald of Provo, Utah; Napa Valley Register of Napa, Calif.; Newport Daily Express of Newport, Vt., The Hanford Sentinel of Hanford, Calif. , Arizona Daily Sun of Flagstaff, Ariz., and Haverhill Gazette in Massachusetts. In December 1975, Scripps League Newspapers spun off
121-686: Was removed. Editors with Swift felt the inability of their content management software to restrict comments they did not approve of was impacting newsroom productivity and civil community conversation. Anthony Collebrusco from the Digital News Test Kitchen at CU-Boulder 's School of Journalism & Mass Communication which is involved in researching a viable means of limiting the pseudonymity and unconditional free speech of commenters on Swift's websites paraphrased Swift's policy as: "Executives at Swift concluded that resources should not be invested in comments — and therefore there
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