Valley News

What Valley News does

Valley News is a privately held, family-owned daily newspaper and digital news platform serving the Upper Valley region spanning New Hampshire and Vermont — including Lebanon, Hanover, West Lebanon, Woodstock, Claremont, Newport, and surrounding communities. Founded in 1946 and headquartered at 24 Interchange Drive in West Lebanon, NH, the publication operates a print newspaper with home delivery, a digital e-Paper edition (reader.vnews.com), and the vnews.com website, all built on the Newspack publishing platform from Automattic. The company is part of the Newspapers of New England media family, which also owns the Concord Monitor, Daily Hampshire Gazette, Greenfield Recorder, and several other regional titles.

The product portfolio functions as an integrated local media ecosystem. Core offerings include original journalism covering news, opinion, sports, arts & life, business, and local government; recurring columns ("A Yankee Notebook" by Willem Lange, "Over Easy" by Dan Mackie); obituary listings; a classifieds marketplace (powered by AdPerfect); a community events calendar (CitySpark); celebration and engagement announcements; puzzles and games (Cross|Word, Really Bad Chess, Flipart, SpellTower via Puzzmo); and email communications managed through ActiveCampaign. Obituaries are processed through iPublish Media Solutions and Legacy.com, contests are run on Upland, and aggregated social content is displayed via Friends2Follow.

Valley News generates revenue primarily through two streams: recurring paid subscriptions for print home delivery and digital access (including e-Paper), and advertising encompassing display, classified, obituary, and celebration ads. Distribution combines home delivery (regional scope) with digital e-Paper and website access (global scope), all sold direct-to-consumer. Marketing relies on email newsletters (Wake Up With the Valley News, breaking news alerts), social media (Facebook, X, Instagram), and SEO-driven website traffic. The newsroom deploys AI-assisted editorial tooling — headline and summary suggestions plus digitally voiced articles — under mandatory human editorial review before publication. The publication partners with Report for America to help sustain local journalism staffing.

Name

Valley News

Legal name

Valley News

Website

https://vnews.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1946

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Valley News is a privately held, family-owned daily newspaper and digital news platform serving the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire and Vermont, operating print, e-Paper, website, newsletters, classifieds, and events calendar products as part of the Newspapers of New England media group.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Local Newspaper and Digital News Media

NAICS

Newspaper Publishers (513110), Information (51)

SIC

Newspapers: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2711), Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

akta.pro primary industry

Local & Regional Newspapers (Print & Digital) (MPAJADAB)

Keywords

• Local newspaper
• Daily news website
• Print and digital subscriptions
• Community journalism
• Classified advertising

Headquarters

HQ city

West Lebanon

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Others

Revenue model

1. Subscription Revenue: Paid subscriptions for print and digital access to news content, including home delivery and e-paper editions.
2. Advertising: Display advertising, classified advertising, obituaries, and celebration ads (wedding/anniversary announcements).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Valley News is a family-owned daily newspaper and digital news website that provides local journalism, sports, opinion, arts and life coverage, obituaries, classifieds, events, and celebration announcements to the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire and Vermont. Its core commercial product is multi-channel access to original local reporting through print home delivery, a digital e-Paper edition, the vnews.com website, and email newsletters.

Product overview

Valley News is a family-owned local news organization serving the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire and Vermont. The company operates a multi-platform news operation centered on its core news website (vnews.com) and e-Paper digital edition, supplemented by newsletters (Valley News Daily Newsletter, Breaking News Alerts), interactive puzzles and games (Cross|Word, Really Bad Chess, Flipart, SpellTower), obituary listings, classifieds, events calendar, and celebration announcements. The product portfolio functions as an integrated local media ecosystem combining original journalism with community features.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• A Yankee Notebook: Weekly column by Willem Lange covering opinion and commentary on various topics.
• Over Easy

Products and services

• Valley News Website The primary digital news platform delivering award-winning coverage of breaking news, sports, opinion, arts and life, business, local government, photos, and classifieds for the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire and Vermont.
• Valley News e-Paper Digital replica of the Valley News print edition accessible online through reader.vnews.com, allowing subscribers to view the full newspaper from any device.
• Classifieds Online classified advertising marketplace for the Upper Valley covering jobs, real estate, vehicles, and other categories, powered by the AdPerfect platform.
• Celebrations Announcements Paid submission portal for engagement, anniversary, and wedding announcements and other celebration ads published in Valley News.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

AI capability3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Report for AmericacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Report for America, an initiative of Report Local, to help sustain local news coverage. Donations to Valley News support this partnership and help fund the salary of their internship program. Report for America places journalists in local newsrooms to strengthen community journalism.
• Newspapers of New EnglandcoreOthersParent company ownership - Valley News is part of the Newspapers of New England family of newspapers, which includes publications such as Amherst Bulletin, Athol Daily News, Concord Monitor, Daily Hampshire Gazette, Greenfield Recorder, and others.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Keene Sentinel: Family-owned daily newspaper covering southwestern New Hampshire. Closely comparable regional daily with print + digital + classifieds monetization.
• Laconia Daily Sun: Independent daily newspaper serving the Lakes Region of New Hampshire. Similar small-market community-newspaper economics and operational footprint.
• Concord Monitor: Sister publication within the Newspapers of New England family; New Hampshire daily newspaper serving Concord and surrounding communities with print and digital subscriptions. Most direct peer given shared parent ownership and operating model.
• Daily Hampshire Gazette: Another NNE-family daily newspaper based in Northampton, MA. Shares back-office infrastructure and the same regional community-newspaper playbook as Valley News.
• The Brattleboro Reformer: Daily newspaper serving the Brattleboro, VT region - geographically adjacent to the Upper Valley and competing for some of the same reader base. Comparable small-market daily-newspaper model.

Regional players

• Seven Days: Vermont-based alternative weekly covering news, arts, and events statewide. Overlaps with Valley News's arts & life, events, and opinion coverage in the Upper Valley but with a different (free alt-weekly) model.

Emerging players

• VTDigger: Vermont-focused nonprofit digital news outlet. Comparable in mission (statewide/regional civic journalism) and increasingly competing for Upper Valley reader attention and donor dollars.
• The Dartmouth (The Dartmouth News): Student-run daily serving Dartmouth College / Hanover - overlapping coverage territory with Valley News. Different funding model (student fees) but shares the Upper Valley news beat.
• Patch Media: Hyperlocal digital news network covering thousands of U.S. towns. Directly competes for digital-only local-news readership and classified/display ad dollars in the same communities Valley News serves.

Broad incumbents

• Gannett (USA TODAY Network): Largest U.S. newspaper chain; owner of numerous regional dailies. Representative broad incumbent whose scale, ad-tech platform, and digital subscription bundles set the competitive ceiling for community titles like Valley News.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/VNewsUV
• Facebookfacebook.com/pages/Valley-News/246562960523
• Instagraminstagram.com/vnewsuv

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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