Louisiana State Newspapers

What Louisiana State Newspapers does

Louisiana State Newspapers is the operating brand of LSN Publishing, Inc, LLC, a privately held Lafayette, Louisiana-based media company that owns and operates a network of 14 community newspaper titles across the Vermilion, Acadia, St. Mary, Allen, and Evangeline parishes. Titles include Abbeville Meridional, Basile Weekly, Bayou-Pioneer, Church Point News, Crowley Post-Signal, Eunice News, Kaplan Herald, Franklin-St. Mary Banner Tribune, Kinder Courier News, Morgan City Review, Oakdale Journal, Rayne Acadian-Tribune, Teche News, and Ville Platte Gazette, each distributed in print and via a third-party e-edition platform (etype.services). The company also operates Louisiana State Printing, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary based in Eunice that provides commercial offset printing services to external customers in addition to internal newspaper production. Each newspaper maintains a local office and local editorial staff, coordinated by central leadership including Chief Operating Officer Darrell Guillory and Chief Accounting Officer Don Andrepont.

The company generates revenue through three primary streams: recurring print newspaper subscriptions and single-copy sales across the 14 community titles; local advertising sold by regional advertising managers to SMB customers within the served parishes; and project-based commercial offset printing services offered through the Louisiana State Printing subsidiary on a quote-based billing model. The business is community-led, targeting local readers and advertisers through hyperlocal content (local news, sports, obituaries, local government coverage, community events) and parish-specific digital domains such as vermiliontoday.com, acadiaparishtoday.com, and stmarynow.com. The technology stack is intentionally lightweight: a third-party digital publishing platform for e-editions, parish-level websites for organic search, and an offset printing press operation. The company has no mobile app, no public API, no disclosed AI/ML capabilities, no external investors, and no parent company, operating as a closely held LLC with 1-10 employees.

Name

Louisiana State Newspapers

Legal name

LSN Publishing, Inc, LLC

Website

https://louisianastatenewspapers.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Louisiana State Newspapers (LSN Publishing, Inc, LLC) is a privately held Lafayette, Louisiana media company that owns 14 community newspaper titles and a commercial offset printing subsidiary, serving local readers and SMB advertisers across five rural Louisiana parishes.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Newspaper Publishing

NAICS

Newspaper Publishers (51311), Newspaper Publishers (513110)

SIC

Newspapers: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2711)

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industry

Newsstand & Single-Copy Distribution (MPAJAKAC)

Keywords

• Community newspaper publishing
• Local news media
• Print subscriptions
• Commercial offset printing
• Newspaper advertising

Headquarters

HQ city

Lafayette

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices13 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Print Newspaper Subscriptions and Sales: Traditional print newspaper distribution through individual sales and subscriptions for community newspapers serving Louisiana markets
2. Local Advertising: Regional advertising sales to local businesses across all 14 community newspaper titles, managed by regional advertising representatives
3. Commercial Offset Printing Services: Louisiana State Printing provides offset printing services from small to large print jobs for external customers

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Louisiana State Newspapers publishes 14 community newspaper titles across Louisiana, selling print and digital subscriptions to local readers and selling advertising space to local businesses. Through its subsidiary Louisiana State Printing, LLC, it also provides commercial offset printing services to outside clients.

Product overview

Louisiana State Newspapers (LSN Publishing Inc LLC) is a network of 14 local newspapers serving communities across Louisiana, including Abbeville Meridional, Basile Weekly, Bayou-Pioneer, Church Point News, Crowley Post-Signal, Eunice News, Kaplan Herald, Franklin-St. Mary Banner Tribune, Kinder Courier News, Morgan City Review, Oakdale Journal, Rayne Acadian-Tribune, Teche News, and Ville Platte Gazette. The company operates as a unified portfolio of regional community newspapers offering both print and digital (e-Edition) formats. Additionally, Louisiana State Printing, LLC provides commercial offset printing services. The newspapers share a central digital infrastructure for e-Editions and are managed through a coordinated leadership team, with titles often cross-referencing each other for shared resources.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Abbeville Meridional: Community newspaper serving Abbeville, LA
• Basile Weekly
• Bayou Pioneer
• Church Point News
• Crowley Post-Signal
• Eunice News
• Kaplan Herald
• Franklin Banner-Tribune
• Kinder Courier News
• Morgan City Review
• Oakdale Journal
• Rayne Acadian Tribune
• Teche News
• Ville Platte Gazette

Products and services

• Community newspaper portfolio (14 titles across Louisiana)

Named customers6 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Adams Publishing Group: Privately held community newspaper company operating local and regional papers across the Midwest and Mid-South, with shared production and digital infrastructure comparable to LSN's centralized e-edition platform.
• Paxton Media Group: Family-owned community newspaper company operating dozens of daily and weekly titles across the U.S. South and Midwest with in-house printing capacity — the closest structural analog to LSN's multi-title rural Louisiana portfolio plus commercial printing subsidiary.
• Boone Newspapers: Private, family-owned chain of community newspapers concentrated in the Southeast with centralized production and ad-sales infrastructure, directly comparable in operating model to LSN's 14-title regional cluster.
• CNHI (Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.): One of the largest U.S. community newspaper operators with a portfolio of small-market dailies and weeklies; a direct functional comparable on the multi-title local-newspaper thesis.
• New York Media Group / Heartland Media: Private operator of small-market daily and weekly newspapers across the U.S., built through acquisitions of distressed titles — a structural comparable for LSN's roll-up potential.
• Ogden Newspapers: Family-owned multi-title community newspaper company with print + digital operations across small markets, comparable to LSN in scale, ownership profile, and rural market focus.

Broad incumbents

• Gannett Co. Largest U.S. newspaper chain (USA TODAY Network) and digital marketing platform; an incumbent with overlapping local-news publishing activities, though at much larger scale and including metro titles.
• Schurz Communications: Diversified regional media company with community newspaper, broadcasting, and digital marketing operations — an incumbent whose local-news footprint overlaps with LSN's model at a broader scale.
• Lee Enterprises: Public, NYSE-listed operator of mid-sized daily newspapers and digital platforms; a broader incumbent in the same local-news publishing category with overlapping but more metro-oriented footprint.

Regional players

• Smyth-Bland Regional Library (illustrative regional printer): Regional U.S. newspaper operations focused on community and local news in non-Louisiana geographies with similar printing-and-publishing hybrids; comparable on the print + e-edition hybrid model but not geographically overlapping.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Subsidiaries1 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 →

Frequently asked questions about Louisiana State Newspapers