Craig Press

What Craig Press does

Craig Press (operating as CraigDailyPress.com) is a private community newspaper and digital media property serving Moffat County in northwest Colorado, including the towns of Craig, Hayden, Maybell, and surrounding communities. Founded in 1975, the publication is owned by Swift Communications, LLC, a privately held Nevada-domiciled media conglomerate, and operates as part of the Colorado Mountain News Media (CMNM) network alongside sister outlets such as Steamboat Pilot, Aspen Times, Vail Daily, and Summit Daily. The publication serves local residents, businesses, government entities, and community organizations with comprehensive coverage of local politics, business, education, crime, courts, health, weather, sports, entertainment, opinion, and community announcements, plus obituary and celebration notices.

The company's product portfolio centers on a multi-channel content distribution platform. Core products include the CraigDailyPress.com website, a daily email newsletter, an E-Edition via PageSuite, a classifieds marketplace shared with CMNM (jobs, rentals, real estate, autos, services), a legal ads service via Column.us, RSS feed syndication, and a portfolio of niche magazines and special sections (e.g., Colorado Hunter, Chamber Guide, Best of Moffat County). The technology stack is built primarily on the Swift Communications web publishing platform, with third-party integrations for e-edition rendering (PageSuite) and legal notice distribution (Column.us). Operationally, Craig Press runs with a small editorial and publishing team — including publisher Rob Galloway and a staff of approximately six reporters — and explicitly operates under "limited resources," delivering a community-led go-to-market focused on local journalism rather than technology differentiation.

Revenue is generated through a mix of local and regional advertising (display, classifieds, digital), recurring print and digital subscriptions, transaction-based classified listing fees, legal notice placements, commercial print sales routed through CMNM Printing, and special-section advertising sold via niche magazines. Distribution is multi-channel across print, web, e-edition, email, classifieds marketplace, and regional content sharing via the News Neighbor network. Craig Press is not VC-backed and operates as a cash-flow community newspaper within the Swift Communications portfolio; a leadership transition in 2026 and a stated editorial reinvestment intent suggest the current phase emphasizes depth of local coverage over expansion.

Name

Craig Press

Legal name

Swift Communications, LLC

Website

https://craigdailypress.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Craig Press is a privately held community newspaper and digital media outlet serving Moffat County, Colorado, delivering local news, classifieds, legal notices, and special-section magazines across web, print, e-edition, and email channels as part of Swift Communications' regional media network.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Local Newspaper

NAICS

Newspaper Publishers (513110), Periodical Publishers (513120)

SIC

Newspapers: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2711)

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industry

Consumer News & Digital Newsrooms (Web/App-First) (MPAJADAD)

Keywords

• Local newspaper
• Community journalism
• Classified advertising
• Digital news
• Print media

Headquarters

HQ city

Craig

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Advertising: Local and regional advertisers place display ads, classifieds, and digital advertising. The Terms and Conditions detail advertising rate cards, insertion orders, and advertising terms for dealers, merchants, and businesses.
2. Subscriptions: Newspaper subscriptions for print and digital e-edition access
3. Classifieds: Fees for job listings, rental listings, real estate, autos, and service directory listings
4. Commercial Print Sales: Printing services offered through CMNM Printing (Colorado Mountain News Media)

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Craig Press publishes a local daily newspaper and operates a digital news platform for Moffat County, Colorado, delivering local news, politics, business, crime, education, health, weather, sports, opinion, obituaries, and community announcements. Content and advertising reach readers through a news website, PageSuite E-Edition, print edition, email newsletters, RSS feeds, and a classifieds marketplace integrated with the Colorado Mountain News Media network.

Product overview

Craig Press operates as a local newspaper and digital media company serving Moffat County, Colorado. The company offers a unified product portfolio centered on CraigDailyPress.com as the primary digital platform, complemented by the E-Edition for digital publication access, a Classifieds Marketplace for community advertising, Daily Newsletter delivery, Magazines and Special Sections including regional guides and annual publications like Best of Moffat County, Legal Ads Services, Obituaries and Celebrations notices, and RSS Feed for automated news distribution. The company is owned by Swift Communications, LLC.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• CraigDailyPress.com News Website Online newspaper website serving Moffat County with daily news coverage across local news, politics, business, crime, education, health, weather, sports, and entertainment sections, available to the general public.
• Craig Press E-Edition Digital replica of the print newspaper delivered through the PageSuite platform, allowing subscribers to read the paper online in a magazine-style format.
• Craig Press Print Newspaper

Quantifiable outcome

• Serving Moffat County communities with local news coverage

Named customers4 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Swift Communications, LLCcoreOthersParent company owning Craig Press and all related websites. Swift Communications provides web hosting, publishing platform, advertising infrastructure, and corporate governance. The company operates under Swift Communications' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.
• Colorado Mountain News Media (CMNM)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegional partner network sharing content, classifieds marketplace infrastructure, and news coverage. CMNM provides printing press operations and job board services. Craig Press classifieds and jobs are hosted through CMNM platforms.
• News Neighbor publicationsminorGTM or Marketing PartnerRegional news partner network including Steamboat Pilot, Aspen Times, Post Independent, Summit Daily, Vail Daily, SkyHi News, and Tahoe Daily Tribune. Content sharing and regional news coverage collaboration.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Patch Media: Digital-only hyperlocal news network covering thousands of US communities including small towns. Represents the digital-native competitive threat to legacy local papers like Craig Press, competing for the same local SMB advertising and community-news audience.

Broad incumbents

• Lee Enterprises: Major US local newspaper group owning many small-market dailies across the Midwest and West. Provides a publicly observable benchmark for ad/subscription mix and print-to-digital transition economics in markets similar in size to Moffat County.
• Gannett (USA TODAY Network / Colorado local titles): Largest US local newspaper chain, including Colorado titles (e.g., Fort Collins Coloradoan). Operates the same newspaper business model at massive scale; benchmark for industry economics but not a direct niche competitor to a single rural weekly/daily.

Direct peers

• Vail Daily: Colorado Mountain News Media property serving Eagle County under the same Swift Communications umbrella. Operates with the identical product stack (website, e-edition, classifieds, newsletters, magazines) and is a directly comparable peer.
• Sky-Hi News: Grand County, CO local newspaper in the Swift Communications network, sharing CMNM classifieds and print infrastructure. Comparable small-mountain-community local newspaper peer to Craig Press.
• Post Independent (Glenwood Springs): Garfield County newspaper within the Swift Communications / News Neighbor network. Same publishing platform, classifieds integration, and local-news business model as Craig Press.
• Tahoe Daily Tribune: Swift Communications' California-based local newspaper serving the Lake Tahoe basin. Same parent, same platform, same product portfolio — directly comparable as a sister small-market daily.
• Aspen Times: News Neighbor network partner within Swift Communications serving Aspen and Pitkin County with the same publishing platform, classifieds marketplace, and CMNM print operations. Directly comparable in business model and product mix to Craig Press.
• Summit Daily: Swift Communications property covering Summit County, CO. Same digital platform, shared classifieds infrastructure, and equivalent print/e-edition/newsletter product set, making it a near-twin operating peer to Craig Press.
• Steamboat Pilot & Today: Sister publication within the same Swift Communications / Colorado Mountain News Media network, also serving a small Colorado mountain community with print, digital, classifieds, and special-section magazines. Closest direct operational and strategic peer to Craig Press.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/craig_press

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

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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