Since 2020, it is owned by Metric Media LLC, a company reported to engage pay-to-play coverage.
[4] Kyle Barnett, the new publisher, reported in an online "Dear Subscriber" letter two days after the purchase that the Mount Vernon News would immediately transition from its six-day-a-week publication schedule (no Sunday edition) to a two-day-a-week schedule (Wednesday and Saturday).
"[7][5] Five months later (in December 2020), Metric Media sold the building on East Vine Street that had been home to the Mount Vernon News for 80 years.
[4] Within a year, 17 of the 40 print editions of the newspaper featured anti-solar power content on its front page.
[4] ProPublica linked the newspaper's anti-solar coverage to a well-financed campaign by fossil fuel interests seeking to scuttle solar energy.