{"id":240190,"date":"2021-06-23T14:58:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T14:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orourkemediagroup.com\/?p=240190"},"modified":"2021-06-23T14:58:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T14:58:52","slug":"orourke-media-group-acquires-las-vegas-nm-optic-from-paxton-media-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devsiteomg.com\/omgsite\/2021\/06\/23\/orourke-media-group-acquires-las-vegas-nm-optic-from-paxton-media-group\/","title":{"rendered":"O\u2019Rourke Media Group acquires Las Vegas (NM) Optic from Paxton Media Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;]<br \/>\n\t\t\t[et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;]<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t[et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">O&#8217;Rourke Media Group announced today that it has purchased the Las Vegas (NM) Optic from Paxton Media Group (PMG).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Las Vegas Optic is one of the 46 newspaper operations PMG recently acquired from Landmark Community Newspapers LLC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">When PMG announced its purchase of Landmark Community Newspapers to the staff of the Optic, the staff was also told that PMG intended to focus on the Landmark newspapers closer to the company\u2019s current geographic footprint in the Southeast, and that they were working to find a new owner for the Optic as soon as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">Dirks, Van Essen &amp; April, a media merger and acquisition firm based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, represented Paxton Media Group. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI&#8217;m excited to plant a flag in the state of New Mexico with the acquisition of the Optic<\/span><span class=\"s3\">,\u201d O\u2019Rourke Media Group CEO Jim O\u2019Rourke said<\/span><span class=\"s1\">. \u201cI&#8217;m really looking forward to working with and investing in this talented, hardworking group of employees as we look to grow digital audience and revenue while continuing to publish an amazing print publication.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">The family-owned and operated O\u2019Rourke Media Group launched in 2018 and has acquired community publications in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Vermont, and Arizona.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">Paxton Media Group, based in Paducah, KY, has 118 publications in 13 states. The Landmark deal included papers in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, Indiana, and Iowa<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column]<br \/>\n\t\t\t[\/et_pb_row]<br \/>\n\t\t[\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O&#8217;Rourke Media Group announced today that it has purchased the Las Vegas (NM) Optic from Paxton Media Group (PMG). The Las Vegas Optic is one of the 46 newspaper operations PMG recently acquired from Landmark Community Newspapers LLC. When PMG announced its purchase of Landmark Community Newspapers to the staff of the Optic, the staff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">O'Rourke Media Group announced today that it has purchased the Las Vegas (NM) Optic from Paxton Media Group (PMG).<\/span><\/p>\nThe Las Vegas Optic is one of the 46 newspaper operations PMG recently acquired from Landmark Community Newspapers LLC.\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">When PMG announced its purchase of Landmark Community Newspapers to the staff of the Optic, the staff was also told that PMG intended to focus on the Landmark newspapers closer to the company\u2019s current geographic footprint in the Southeast, and that they were working to find a new owner for the Optic as soon as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">Dirks, Van Essen &amp; April, a media merger and acquisition firm based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, represented Paxton Media Group. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI'm excited to plant a flag in the state of New Mexico with the acquisition of the Optic<\/span><span class=\"s3\">,\u201d O\u2019Rourke Media Group CEO Jim O\u2019Rourke said<\/span><span class=\"s1\">. \u201cI'm really looking forward to working with and investing in this talented, hardworking group of employees as we look to grow digital audience and revenue while continuing to publish an amazing print publication.\"\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">The family-owned and operated O\u2019Rourke Media Group launched in 2018 and has acquired community publications in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Vermont, and Arizona.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">Paxton Media Group, based in Paducah, KY, has 118 publications in 13 states. 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