Acquisitions and sales
The company originated in 1926 when the Wick family purchased the Niles Daily Times in Niles, Ohio.[15][16] The company bought The Daily Herald in 1947[17] and Williston Herald in 1961.[18][19] Also in 1961, the Wick sold the Niles Daily Times and three nearby newspapers (the Girard News, the Hubbard News and the Suburban Reporter) to a newly formed enterprise.[20] In 1962, Wick purchased a stake in the Sidney Herald.[21]
The Wicks acquired the Sierra Vista Herald in 1967,[22] the Argus Observer in 1968,[23] Bisbee Review in 1974[24] and Green Valley News in 1978,[25] Arizona Range News in 1981,[26] Eastern Arizona Courier in 1983,[27][28] KFMM and KCUZ in 1983,[28]
Wick sold the LaPlace L'Observateur and Bogalusa Daily News in April 2014 to Carpenter Media Group, a division of Boone Newspapers.[42][43] That same month, Wick sold the Tucson Weekly and Inside Tucson Business to 10/13 Communications.[44] In January 2018, Wick sold The Daily Herald to Paxton Media Group[45] and also sold the Half Moon Bay Review in May 2018.[46] The company purchased The Wenatchee World in March 2018[47] Acadiana LifeStyle in July 2018,[48]
Wick purchased the Madison Daily Leader in South Dakota in March 2021.[52] In September 2023, Wick bought the Arizona Daily Sun from Lee Enterprises.[53] In April 2024, Wick Communications sold The Daily Iberian and Acadian LifeStyle to Carpenter Media Group.[54] In October 2024, the company purchased the television station, NCWLife channel.[55]
Wick sold seven newspapers to Forum Communications Company in January 2026. The deal included The Daily Journal in Minnesota; Wahpeton Daily News, Hankinson News Monitor and Williston Herald in North Dakota; Capital Journal and Madison Daily Leader in South Dakota; and Sidney Herald in Montana.[56] In March 2026, the company sold the Delta County Independent and Montrose Daily Press in Colorado to the Seaton Publishing Company.[57]
