The Daily Mining Gazette

What The Daily Mining Gazette does

The Daily Mining Gazette is a community daily newspaper serving Houghton, Michigan and the broader Copper Country region of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Founded in 1859 and currently operating as a going concern, the publication is owned by Ogden News Publishing of Michigan, Inc., a subsidiary of Ogden News Publishing, and is published from its Houghton office. The paper delivers local news, sports coverage, opinion and editorial content, obituaries, classifieds, job listings, and government public notices to residents of the Upper Peninsula, with a stated differentiator of hyperlocal coverage in a rural market served by few media alternatives.

The product surface is organized around a WordPress-based core website (mininggazette.com) supplemented by a daily email newsletter subscription, a digital edition accessible through mynewsonthego.com for tablet, smartphone, and computer reading, a separate jobs portal (jobs.mininggazette.com), an online classifieds/garage-sales marketplace, and a public-notices section for legal and government listings. Physical print distribution continues in the Houghton and Copper Country area. Marketing and distribution reach the audience through the website, Facebook (@mininggazette), Twitter (@TheDMG), and the daily email newsletter.

The revenue model combines paid digital and print subscriptions (advertised at $3.50–$4.00 per week, billed monthly), print and digital advertising, classified listings, job-portal postings, and government/legal public-notice fees. The customer base is almost entirely consumer subscribers and small local advertisers in a single geographic region, with no enterprise or national accounts disclosed. There is no indication of outside venture or PE ownership, no funding rounds, and no active M&A or restructuring activity in the available data.

Name

The Daily Mining Gazette

Legal name

Ogden News Publishing of Michigan, Inc.

Website

https://mininggazette.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1859

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Daily Mining Gazette is a community daily newspaper founded in 1859 that delivers local news, sports, obituaries, classifieds, and public notices to residents of Houghton and the Copper Country region of Michigan's Upper Peninsula via print and digital channels.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Local Newspaper

NAICS

Newspaper Publishers (513110)

SIC

Newspapers: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2711)

akta.pro primary industry

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

Keywords

• Local newspaper publishing
• Community news coverage
• Regional news media
• Newspaper subscription services
• Classified advertising listings

Headquarters

HQ city

Houghton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The Daily Mining Gazette is a community newspaper founded in 1859 serving the Houghton and Copper Country region of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It publishes local, regional, and wire-service (AP) news, sports, obituaries, and opinion content, delivered through a printed daily edition, a digital website, email newsletters, and a mobile app. Revenue is generated from paid subscriptions, display and classified advertising, public notices, and sponsored job postings.

Product overview

The Daily Mining Gazette is a traditional regional newspaper offering a unified digital news platform. The core product is the main website delivering local news, sports, opinion columns, obituaries, and classifieds. Supporting services include a newsletter subscription for email delivery, a digital edition for online newspaper access, a dedicated jobs portal at jobs.mininggazette.com, and a public notices section for legal announcements. The newspaper is published by Ogden News Publishing of Michigan, Inc., headquartered in Houghton, Michigan.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• The Daily Mining Gazette Newspaper Founded in 1859, the flagship community newspaper serving the Houghton, Michigan and Copper Country region of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Delivered in print and online, it covers local news, sports, obituaries, opinion, and aggregates AP wire content (Michigan, National, International news and sports).
• Print and Digital Subscription Subscription offering for both print and digital access to The Daily Mining Gazette, with introductory digital rates starting at approximately $3.50–$4.00 per week. Available in daily, weekly, and monthly billing cadences for individual readers in the Upper Peninsula.
• Email Newsletter Free opt-in email newsletter providing headlines, breaking news, and featured stories from The Daily Mining Gazette delivered to subscribers' inboxes.
• Digital Edition / E-Edition Digital replica of the print newspaper accessible online, with content accessible via the publisher's mobile app platform (mynewsonthego.com) for subscribers seeking on-the-go access on mobile devices.
• Classifieds Listings Online classifieds section for the Copper Country community, including categories such as Garage Sales, Housing Rentals, Vehicles, and Merchandise, accessible from the newspaper's website.
• Jobs Portal Online job listings section on the Daily Mining Gazette website, allowing local employers to post openings and job seekers in the Upper Peninsula to browse opportunities.
• Public Notices Publication of legal public notices and announcements, including obituaries, served to the local Houghton/Copper Country community as a statutory notice-publishing service.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Sault Ste. Marie Evening News: Daily newspaper serving Sault Ste. Marie in Michigan's eastern Upper Peninsula. Comparable hyperlocal daily format, similar subscription pricing, and overlapping regional coverage area within the UP.
• The Daily Tribune (Wisconsin Rapids): Small-market daily newspaper in central Wisconsin with a comparable print-plus-digital subscription model serving a similar-sized rural community. Directly comparable in scale, distribution model, and revenue mix.
• The Mining Journal: Daily newspaper based in Marquette, MI, covering Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Operates as a sister publication under the same Ogden Newspapers ownership and serves an overlapping geographic market, making it the closest functional peer.
• Escanaba Daily Press: Daily newspaper based in Escanaba, MI in the central Upper Peninsula. Comparable small-city daily serving a rural Upper Midwest community with print and digital subscriptions.

Regional players

• Petoskey News-Review: Northern Michigan daily newspaper serving the Petoskey region. Comparable in regional daily newspaper model and rural Northern Michigan audience, owned by Gannett and operating at slightly larger scale.
• Traverse City Record-Eagle: Daily newspaper serving Traverse City and the Grand Traverse region of Northern Michigan. Similar local daily format, though operating in a larger and more affluent market than the Gazette.

Broad incumbents

• Ogden Newspapers: Parent company of The Daily Mining Gazette and a portfolio of community newspapers across multiple states. Provides the operating context for the Gazette's cost structure, syndicated content, and capital allocation decisions.
• Advance Local / MLive: Michigan-focused regional digital news network owned by Advance Publications. Competes for Michigan audience attention and digital ad dollars, and serves as an indicator of how regional digital-only news models operate in the same geography.
• Gannett Co. (USA Today Network): Largest U.S. newspaper chain, operating hundreds of local dailies including multiple Michigan titles. Represents the scale end of the industry and the competitive dynamics shaping local newspaper ad and subscription economics.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/TheDMG
• Facebookfacebook.com/mininggazette
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/daily-mining-gazette

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

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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