A buyer has emerged for The Newry Reporter, one of Northern Ireland’s oldest newspapers, as it was preparing its last edition.
National World Publishing, a media investment company formed in 2020 by publishing David Montgomery in order to buy the former Johnston Press assets, has bought the 155-year-old title, a move which will save the jobs of its 10 staff.
The eleventh-hour swoop on the newspaper business – for an undisclosed sum - sees it change hands from the Edward Hodgett Group, the family-owned company which has owned the title for 96 years and which last week announced plans to close the paper after next week’s edition was published on January 25.
