MORGAN HILL TIMES

Name

MORGAN HILL TIMES

Legal name

Morgan Hill Times

Website

https://morganhilltimes.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1894

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Local Community Newspaper

NAICS

Newspaper Publishers (513110)

SIC

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

akta.pro primary industry

Investigative & Nonprofit News Organizations (MPAJADAF)

Keywords

• Local newspaper
• Community news
• Print journalism
• Digital media
• Advertising sales

Headquarters

HQ city

Morgan Hill

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, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Advertising Revenue: Local business advertising including display ads, sponsored content, and classifieds. Also includes public notices/legal advertisements.
2. Subscriptions: Print and digital subscriptions for the newspaper providing local news coverage.
3. Public Notices/Legals: Government and legal public notice publications required by law.
4. Event Promotion: Paid event listings and promotion through CitySpark partnership.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Morgan Hill Times is a local community newspaper publishing news, sports, opinion, crime, religion, politics, and community event coverage for Morgan Hill, San Martin, and the surrounding South Valley area in California. It distributes a print edition, a digital e-edition via the PageSuite platform, and a website with local content verticals, supplemented by advertising, obituary, and event-calendar services.

Product overview

Morgan Hill Times is a local news organization serving Morgan Hill, San Martin, and the broader South Valley region. The company operates a print and digital newspaper as its core product, supplemented by an E-Edition digital platform, South Valley Magazine, and various special edition publications. Additional offerings include obituary services through Legacy.com, an events calendar with Cityspark integration, high school sports coverage, the annual Best of Morgan Hill awards program, and advertising services for local businesses. The publication covers news, crime, religion, politics, opinion, and community events across the region.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Morgan Hill Times Newspaper Local newspaper publication covering news, sports, opinion, crime, religion, politics, and community events in Morgan Hill, San Martin, and surrounding South Valley areas, distributed via print home delivery and newsstands.
• E-Edition Digital Digital replica of the print newspaper hosted on the PageSuite platform, allowing online readers to view the full publication digitally.
• Morgan Hill Times Website

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• PageSuitecoreTechnology or IntegrationDigital edition platform provider hosting the Morgan Hill Times e-edition for online and digital reading access.
• Legacy.comcoreTechnology or IntegrationObituary listings partnership providing online obituary services, archived obituaries, and obituary submission functionality.
• CitySparkminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorEvent portal partnership for event submission, listing, and promotion services through the Morgan Hill Times calendar.
• Metro Silicon Valley / WeeklyscoreOthersParent company network including sister publications (Gilroy Dispatch, Good Times Santa Cruz, East Bay Express, etc.) and publications under the Alt Weeklies, Community Weeklies, and Magazines divisions. Part of New SV Media.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Patch.com: Digital hyperlocal news network with a Morgan Hill/South Bay page. Competes for the same local advertisers and reader attention with a free, digital-only model, representing the structural threat to paid community newspaper subscription and ad revenue.

Others

• Nextdoor: Hyperlocal community platform widely adopted in Morgan Hill and surrounding communities. Functions as a free substitute for local news, classifieds, and event listings — directly competing with Morgan Hill Times' reader engagement and small-business advertising use cases.

Direct peers

• Pleasanton Weekly: Embarcadero Media-owned community newspaper serving Pleasanton in the East Bay. Closely comparable in format, revenue model, and suburban California demographic profile, providing an independent peer benchmark outside the New SV Media network.
• Good Times Santa Cruz: New SV Media sibling weekly publication covering Santa Cruz County. Operates the same community newspaper + lifestyle magazine model in an adjacent regional market, providing direct operational and cross-promotion comparability.
• Gilroy Dispatch: Sibling publication under New SV Media covering Gilroy and the South Valley. Operates an identical community newspaper model with print, digital, advertising, and public-notice revenue, making it the closest direct comparable for benchmarking operations and revenue scale.
• Metro Silicon Valley: New SV Media sibling publication covering the broader Silicon Valley region. Shares the same advertising sales force, back-office infrastructure, and ownership, making it a direct comparable for ad-rate economics and digital product benchmarking.
• Hollister Free Lance: Another New SV Media community newspaper covering San Benito County. Same business model — print + digital subscription + local advertising + public notices — in an adjacent small California market, providing direct operational and revenue comparison.
• Los Altos Town Crier: Independent community newspaper serving Los Altos and surrounding Silicon Valley communities. Operates the same print + digital subscription + local advertising model in a similar affluent suburban California market, making it a strong independent peer benchmark.
• Mountain View Voice: Embarcadero Media community newspaper covering Mountain View in the Silicon Valley. Same local newspaper business model targeting a tech-adjacent suburban community, providing a direct comparable for digital subscription conversion and small-business advertising performance.

Broad incumbents

• Bay Area News Group (San Jose Mercury News): Largest regional newspaper group covering the Bay Area, including the San Jose Mercury News. Overlaps with Morgan Hill Times' coverage geography and competes for the same local advertising dollars, but operates at a much larger scale with broader regional scope.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/morganhilltimes
• Facebookfacebook.com/morganhilltimes
• Instagraminstagram.com/morganhilltimes
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/morgan-hill-times

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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