The company owned 23 daily and weekly newspapers in Atlantic Canada including The Chronicle Herald in Halifax, the Cape Breton Post in Sydney, Nova Scotia, and the The Telegram in St. John's, Newfoundland.
On April 13, 2017, Halifax's independently owned The Chronicle Herald announced its acquisition of 27 newspapers in the region from Transcontinental Media, via the newly formed parent company SaltWire Network.
[8] In June 2018, Saltwire Network changed the Carbonear, Newfoundland-based weekly newspaper, The Compass, from a subscriber model to a free total market product delivered as a flyer package wrap.
[11] In March 2019, SaltWire announced it was putting 10 of its newspaper buildings up for sale, including the headquarters for the Cape Breton Post, and the St. John’s Telegram’s.
[14] In April 2019, SaltWire filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia against Transcontinental, accusing it of overstating and misrepresenting details surrounding the revenue of the papers it had acquired.
[15] The company threatened a counter-suit, stating that the sale was "conducted based on fair, accurate and timely information", and accusing SaltWire of failing to "fulfil its payment obligations".
[29] During the first week of December 2024, Postmedia rebranded SaltWire as PNI Atlantic News, with their websites and print editions changing to look like the parent company’s other newspapers and their head office moved to Toronto.