The Rosebud News

Name

The Rosebud News

Legal name

The Rosebud News

Website

https://rosebudnews.net

Company type

Private

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)

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industry

Alternative/Independent Newsweeklies & Opinion Press (MPAJADAH)

Keywords

• Local news publishing
• Community journalism
• Hyperlocal news coverage
• Digital newspaper
• Obituary services

Headquarters

HQ city

Marlin

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Advertising: Local advertising revenue from businesses in the Cameron, TX area. The site features advertising opportunities including classifieds and display ads.
2. Digital Subscriptions: Digital edition and online content access, likely through subscription model for premium content.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

The Rosebud News is a hyperlocal community newspaper serving the Rosebud and Cameron, TX area (ZIP 76520) and surrounding Falls County and Milam County communities. The publication produces and distributes local news, sports coverage (including Rosebud-Lott High School), community events, opinion pieces, obituaries, classifieds, and legal notices through its digital website and a weekly PageSuite-powered digital edition. It operates as a section of the Cameron Herald within the Times Local Media network.

Product overview

The Rosebud News is a local community newspaper offering a unified digital platform for local news coverage. The core product is the Rosebud News Website, which provides news, sports, community, and opinion content for the Cameron, TX area. This is supplemented by an integrated Digital Edition for accessing the printed weekly publication, Obituaries Service for death notices, Classifieds for community ads, and Legals for public notice publication. The publication operates as part of the Texas Local Media network.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Rosebud News Website

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. (CNHI): Privately held owner of community and daily newspapers across the U.S., with a portfolio heavily weighted to small and mid-sized markets. Highly comparable business model for hyperlocal community papers like The Rosebud News and a likely benchmark for any roll-up acquirer.
• Lee Enterprises: Publicly traded owner of a large portfolio of local daily and weekly newspapers across the U.S., including many small-town community papers. Represents the broad incumbent local-newspaper operator model against which hyperlocal peers like The Rosebud News are typically benchmarked for ad sales and digital transition.
• Ogden Newspapers: Family-owned operator of daily and community newspapers concentrated in smaller U.S. markets. Comparable in its emphasis on community-rooted local journalism and legal-notice/classified monetization typical of small-town press economics.
• Hearst Media (Texas / Local Group): Hearst operates a portfolio that includes community newspapers in Texas and other states. While broader than hyperlocal, its community-newspaper units compete for the same local advertiser base and serve as a benchmark for digital transformation at small papers.
• Adams Publishing Group: Private owner of a large group of community newspapers, shopping guides, and niche publications, primarily in small and mid-sized U.S. markets. Directly comparable in its focus on non-metro, hyperlocal community coverage and recurring-revenue verticals like legal notices and classifieds.
• Gannett (USA Today Network): Largest U.S. local newspaper operator, owning hundreds of community and daily titles. While Gannett's scale dwarfs hyperlocal papers, it competes for the same local advertiser dollars in adjacent Texas markets and represents the dominant incumbent in local newspaper publishing.

Direct peers

• Jacksboro Herald-Gazette: Another Times Local Media network community newspaper, referenced in the Rosebud News site navigation. Serves a similarly sized rural Texas community, providing a near-perfect direct peer for business model, monetization, and operational benchmarking.
• Marlin Democrat: Sister community newspaper in the Times Local Media network serving Marlin, TX. Articles and opinion content from the Marlin Democrat are cross-linked on The Rosebud News site, and both share sales (timeslocalmedia.com/advertise) and contact infrastructure — a directly comparable hyperlocal peer.
• Cameron Herald: The parent publication that hosts The Rosebud News as a section, sharing the same office at 108 E 1st St, Cameron, TX. Operates under the same Times Local Media network and identical technology stack (BLOX CMS, PageSuite), making it the closest operational and editorial peer.

Others

• Heart of Texas Electric Cooperative: Local cooperative repeatedly cited in Rosebud News coverage as a community partner (e.g., Government-in-Action Youth Tour sponsorship). Not a media peer but a relevant local ecosystem participant that co-funds community content and demonstrates the publication's deep community integration.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/TheRosebudNews
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/rosebud-news

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 →

Frequently asked questions about The Rosebud News