Editor’s note: Last summer, Swift Communications announced that Pacific Publishing Company purchased the assets of four of the Sierra Nevada Media Group publications: Nevada Appeal, The Record-Courier, Lahontan Valley News and Northern Nevada Business View. Swift still owns The Union.
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Just FYI: The Union.com still has a link to the Nevada Appeal on its website under “News Neighbors.” You can find the publication there.
I have been getting email solicitations for donations from Vail and Park City newspapers I have never heard of that I assume are Swift papers. Apparently, The Union has given my information to their sister publications. The disclaimer reads along the lines of “you are receiving this because you requested it.” Well, no I didn’t.
I received an unsolicited email from the Nevada Appeal for a donation. It confused me into thinking it was still a Swift newspaper, since I never have had anything to do with the outfit “Nevada News Group.” I guess being a “news neighbor” of The Union, the Appeal’s current status, “has its privileges” (as in the AMEX advertising jingle). Ha!
And in the midst of this, big papers are taking down their paywalls so everyone can read about Covid-19—- for free.
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/news-organizations-drop-paywall-coronavirus-information-69696012