[1] It is a private company and owns papers in smaller cities in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas, Michigan, Mississippi, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia.
[4] After originally owning Tuscaloosa Newspapers Inc. under the guidance of Carmage Walls,[5] Boone eventually took over the company and purchased additional papers.
[7] Boone, who died of cancer in 1983, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1956 for an anti-segregation editorial in the Tuscaloosa News, where he was the longtime editor and publisher, about the admission of the first Black student to the University of Alabama.
[8] The Encyclopedia of Alabama says he was "one of only a handful of white newspaper leaders in the South to take a moderate stance on civil rights, advocating a calm, level-headed acceptance of desegregation.
[4] After Jim Boone's death in February 2023, Boone Newsmedia announced in October that Todd H. Carpenter, its CEO since 2004, would be separating from the company with several properties that he had jointly owned under his Carpenter Newsmedia LLC company, including newspapers in Georgia, Louisiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.