This happened four months ago, but worth a note: The Hamburg Reporter, in the southwest corner of Iowa, changed ownership. It had been a GateHouse paper, then a Gannett paper following the former’s purchase of the latter (but taking the latter’s name).
Nearly two dozen small papers in the Midwest, including the Reporter and the Nebraska City News-Press across the river, were sold to CherryRoad Media. CherryRoad filled in with a new newspaper for International Falls, Minnesota, a month after that city’s 111-year-old paper shut down. (It owns a paper in Grand Marais, WAY up there in the Boundary Waters area and 2/3 of the way from Duluth to the Canada border.)
The Reporter was an outlier in the “new Gannett”. Many of its Iowa weeklies nearly form a ring around Des Moines.