The Rome News-Tribune

What The Rome News-Tribune does

The Rome News-Tribune is a privately held local newspaper serving Rome, Georgia and the surrounding Floyd County area in northwest Georgia. It publishes local news, sports, opinion, election coverage, lifestyle content, obituaries, classifieds, and legal notices through both a print edition and a digital platform hosted at northwestgeorgianews.com/rome. The publication is one of several regional titles operating under the broader northwestgeorgianews.com network, alongside the Calhoun Times, Catoosa Walker News, and Polk County Standard Journal, sharing digital infrastructure across a five-county footprint.

The product portfolio comprises the core news website (the primary digital product), a digital e-Edition replica of the print newspaper, the Hometown Headlines subscription newsletter, an online classifieds marketplace, and obituary listings integrated through a Legacy.com partnership. The underlying technology is a TownNews CMS publication platform with standard web, social, and email distribution channels. There is no disclosed proprietary AI, no mobile app, and no API or developer-facing surface; the operation is a conventional small-market news brand.

The business model combines reader subscription revenue (print home delivery, mail subscription, digital subscription, and e-Edition access) with advertising sales across display, classified, and legal-notice categories. Local SMB advertisers are sold to through a small in-house sales team, while local residents form the reader base. Subscription pricing is not publicly disclosed on the website; customers are directed to contact the main office. Operational and editorial leadership is consolidated under a Northwest GA Markets President who oversees the regional cluster.

Name

The Rome News-Tribune

Legal name

The Rome News-Tribune

Website

https://northwestgeorgianews.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1843

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

The Rome News-Tribune is a privately held local newspaper serving Rome, Georgia and Floyd County, publishing local news, sports, opinion, obituaries, classifieds, and legal notices across print and digital channels under the northwestgeorgianews.com network.

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
• Print media subscriptions
• Digital news platform
• Classified advertising

Headquarters

HQ city

Rome

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, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Rome News-Tribune publishes local news, sports, opinion, elections, business, lifestyle, obituary, classified, and legal notice content for Rome, Georgia and the surrounding northwest Georgia region. It distributes this content through a daily print newspaper, a digital subscription website at northwestgeorgianews.com/rome, an e-Edition digital replica, and the Hometown Headlines email newsletter. Revenue is generated through reader subscriptions and advertising sales to local businesses and government entities placing legal notices.

Product overview

The Rome News-Tribune operates as a local newspaper website under the Northwest Georgia News network (northwestgeorgianews.com). The core offering is the Rome News-Tribune news website providing local news coverage. The product portfolio includes the main news website with sections for News, Sports, Opinion, Elections, Business, and Lifestyles; Hometown Headlines subscription newsletter service; e-Edition digital replica of the print edition; Classifieds marketplace; and integrated obituaries through Legacy.com partnership. The site also serves as an umbrella for multiple regional newspapers including Calhoun Times, Catoosa Walker News, and Polk County Standard Journal.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• The Rome News-Tribune (print and digital newspaper)

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Lee Enterprises: Publicly traded operator of mid-sized local newspapers across the U.S. with a focus on subscription, digital ad, and shared services. Directly comparable in revenue mix (print + digital subscriptions + local advertising) to a small-market community paper.
• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Georgia's flagship regional metro newspaper. While serving a much larger Atlanta-metro audience, it competes with Rome News-Tribune for northwest Georgia readership and statewide digital ad budgets, and offers a benchmark for digital subscription and e-Edition strategy.
• CNHI (Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.): Operates a portfolio of community newspapers and digital sites, many in small and mid-sized U.S. markets. Closely aligned with Rome News-Tribune's scale, geographic footprint, and small-town advertiser base.
• Marietta Daily Journal: Georgia daily newspaper with overlapping Northwest-metro coverage; the circulation director's email at MDJonline.com indicates an affiliation or parent-company relationship, making this the most direct incumbent comparable for operational and revenue-model benchmarking.
• Gannett (USA Today Network / LocaliQ): Largest U.S. local newspaper operator, running hundreds of community dailies and weeklies with shared digital subscription, e-Edition, and ad-tech stacks. Represents the scale benchmark for what an aggregated community-newspaper platform looks like operationally.

Direct peers

• The Calhoun Times: Sister publication within the same Northwest Georgia News network (northwestgeorgianews.com), serving Calhoun, GA and Gordon County. Directly comparable local/community newspaper with shared CMS, shared back-office, and shared leadership structure.
• Catoosa Walker News: Another Northwest Georgia News network publication covering Catoosa and Walker counties in Georgia. Operates on the same townnews.com CMS and shared editorial/advertising infrastructure as the Rome News-Tribune.
• Polk County Standard Journal: Sister paper in the same Northwest Georgia News network covering Polk County. Closely analogous small-market community newspaper with shared parent operations and overlapping advertiser base.

Others

• Nextdoor: Hyperlocal social platform used by Rome-area residents and local businesses for community news, recommendations, and local advertising. Indirect competitor for the time and ad spend of local readers and SMB advertisers that historically went to the community newspaper.

Emerging players

• Patch Media: Digital-native hyperlocal news network covering thousands of U.S. communities, including parts of Georgia. Represents the most direct digital-native competitive threat for local news readership and SMB advertising share in Rome's market.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/romenewstribune
• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/romenewstribune
• Facebookfacebook.com/RomeNewsTribune
• Instagraminstagram.com/romenews
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/rome-newstribune

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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

M&A

Investments

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