{"id":804570,"date":"2020-02-25T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=379486"},"modified":"2020-02-25T09:36:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T16:36:00","slug":"swift-communications-sells-greeley-tribune-to-newspaper-operator-medianews-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/swift-communications-sells-greeley-tribune-to-newspaper-operator-medianews-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Swift Communications sells Greeley Tribune to newspaper operator MediaNews Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"858\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-8.36.56-AM.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-8.36.56-AM.png 858w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-8.36.56-AM-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-02-25-at-8.36.56-AM-768x574.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 858px) 100vw, 858px\"><figcaption><strong>The Greeley Tribune building at 501 8th Ave. in downtown Greeley.<\/strong><br \/><em>Greeley Tribune file photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>CARSON CITY, NV \u2014 Swift Communications announced today it has reached an agreement to sell the Greeley Tribune to MediaNews Group (\u201cMNG\u201d), the owner and operator of one of the largest newspaper businesses in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this change, the Greeley Tribune, its staff and the community will benefit from the many resources that MNG has in the region, as well as benefiting the long term interests of both companies,\u201d said Bill Waters, Chairman and CEO, Swift Communications, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>The sale will take effect March 1 at 12:01 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Greeley Tribune has an incredible history and we look forward to supporting the publication with our team of seasoned newspaper executives,\u201d said Al Manzi, President of Prairie Mountain Media. \u201cOur goals are simple: to run sustainable newspapers so they will be around to serve their local communities well into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MNG is one of the largest owners and operators of newspapers in the United States by circulation, with approximately 200 publications including The Denver Post, the Loveland Reporter-Herald, the Longmont Times-Call, and the Boulder Daily Camera.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1870 by Nathan Meeker, the Greeley Tribune was purchased in 1977 by Swift Communications. The Greeley Tribune publishes four days a week, and its website,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greeleytribune.com\/\">http:\/\/www.greeleytribune.com<\/a>, serves over 400,000 unique visitors monthly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/swift-communications-sells-greeley-tribune-to-newspaper-operator-medianews-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greeley Tribune building at 501 8th Ave. in downtown Greeley.Greeley Tribune file photo CARSON CITY, NV \u2014 Swift Communications announced today it has reached an agreement to sell the Greeley Tribune to MediaNews Group (\u201cMNG\u201d), the owner and operator of one of the largest newspaper businesses in the U.S. \u201cWith this change, the Greeley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-21 19:43:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}