Community News

What Community News does

Community News (legally My Community News) is a for-profit local community news publication serving St. Charles and St. Louis Counties in Missouri. It was founded in 1921 and operates as a privately held property of CherryRoad Media, a strategic newspaper operating company. The publication runs a digital-first platform at mycnews.com that publishes News, Sports, Community, Lifestyle, Opinion, and Obituaries content, alongside dedicated E-Editions for each of its two coverage markets.

The core product is the digital edition experience, delivered through the mycnews.com website and PDF-based E-Editions that are published for each county market. The underlying technology is a standard content publishing platform with a WordPress-based CMS (evidenced by the wp-content path in the site's asset URLs) layered with subscription, pay, classifieds, legal notices, and obituary submission flows. Obituary listings are routed through a third-party partner (Legacy.com / mycnews.obituaries.com), and merchant perks for the subscription tier are managed through a Community Insider perks-card system with QR-code redemption.

Revenue is generated from two streams: recurring digital subscriptions sold via the Community Insider program (with monthly billing cadence, though prices are not publicly disclosed), and display/digital advertising sold to local businesses and organizations reaching the publication's readership. Customer segments are primarily geographic — local residents of St. Charles and St. Louis Counties for subscriptions, and local SMB advertisers for ad spend. Bob Huneke serves as Publisher/CEO. The publication is currently operational and actively publishing as of mid-2026, with no public revenue, funding, or institutional-investor disclosures in the source data.

Name

Community News

Legal name

My Community News

Website

https://mycnews.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1921

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Community News is a local community news publication serving St. Charles and St. Louis Counties in Missouri, operating the digital platform mycnews.com with dual E-Editions, Community Insider subscriptions, and local advertising. It is owned by CherryRoad Media and led by Publisher/CEO Bob Huneke.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Local News Publishing

NAICS

Newspaper Publishers (513110)

SIC

Newspapers: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2711)

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industry

Community, Ethnic & Multilingual News Publishers (MPAJADAG)

Keywords

• Local news publishing
• Community journalism
• Digital newspaper
• E-edition subscriptions
• Classified advertising

Headquarters

HQ city

O Fallon

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Digital Subscriptions: Community Insider subscription program offering perks and premium content access to readers in St. Charles and St. Louis Counties.
2. Advertising: Display and digital advertising sold to local businesses and organizations targeting the community news readership.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Community News operates a hyperlocal digital news platform serving St. Charles and St. Louis Counties in Missouri, publishing original editorial content across News, Sports, Community, Lifestyle, Opinion, and Obituaries categories. It offers PDF digital editions (E-Editions) for each county, a Community Insider subscription program providing reader perks, and self-serve submission services for classified ads, legal notices, and obituaries.

Product overview

Community News is a local community news website serving St. Charles and St. Louis Counties in Missouri, published by CherryRoad Media. The publication offers a single unified digital news platform featuring content across News, Sports, Community, Lifestyle, Opinion, and Obituaries categories. Its primary digital offering is the E-Editions (Digital Issues) product, which provides PDF versions of the newspaper for both St. Charles and St. Louis county editions. Additional services include classified submissions, legal notices, obituary services through a third-party partner, and a Community Insider subscriber perks program.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• E-Editions / Digital Issues PDF digital editions of the Community News newspaper published for St. Charles and St. Louis counties, with separate digital issues for each coverage area. The editions are available through the website as downloadable digital issues with publication dates shown on dedicated category pages.
• Community Insider Subscription Program Recurring subscription program that provides enrolled readers with access to a perks card, subscriber status, perk QR code redemption, and premium content access for residents of St. Charles and St. Louis Counties in Missouri.
• Classified Ad Submission Service Self-serve classified advertising submission service allowing individuals and local businesses to place classified ads in Community News through the website.
• Legal Notice Submission Service Submission service that allows attorneys, businesses, and individuals to submit legal notices to be published in Community 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

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Lee Enterprises: A large publicly traded newspaper company operating local daily and weekly papers across the U.S., including titles in the St. Louis region. It represents a comparable local news business model at greater scale, and is a potential acquirer or consolidator of small titles like Community News.
• STLtoday (St. Louis Post-Dispatch): The dominant regional daily newspaper serving the greater St. Louis area, including St. Charles and St. Louis Counties. It competes directly with Community News for local advertising and reader attention, but with significantly broader geographic coverage and resources.
• Suburban Journals (Hearst): A group of community newspapers serving St. Louis-area suburbs under Hearst's local media division. It directly competes with Community News in suburban St. Louis coverage and represents the most immediate local competitive set.
• Gannett | USA Today Network: The largest U.S. newspaper chain, operating hundreds of local publications and the USA Today network. It competes with Community News for digital ad budgets and subscription dollars, and serves as a benchmark for digital subscription conversion in local news.

Direct peers

• Patch Media: A nationwide network of hyperlocal online news sites covering individual towns and counties. Patch directly competes with Community News in St. Charles and St. Louis County coverage and operates under a similar digital-first, community-focused model.
• Emprise Local Media Group: An operator of small-market local newspapers and digital news sites in the U.S. Midwest and beyond. Highly comparable in business model, scale, and target geography, making it a relevant peer for benchmarking digital transition and small-town publishing economics.

Regional players

• Riverfront Times: An alternative newsweekly serving the St. Louis metropolitan region. It overlaps with Community News on local news, opinion, and lifestyle content, though its editorial focus skews more urban and alternative versus Community News's suburban county focus.

Others

• CherryRoad Media: Community News's parent company and a consolidator of small local newspapers. It is a direct comparator for unit economics, technology stack, and operational model since it owns and runs publications of similar size and structure across multiple states.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/mycnews
• Facebookfacebook.com/mycnews
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/huneke-publications-inc

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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