The Lüdenscheider Nachrichten cooperates editorially and technically with the Süderländer Tageblatt (Plettenberg) and the Mendener Zeitung.

The Lüdenscheider Nachrichten belongs to Dirk Ippen's media group, which also includes the Münchner Merkur, the tabloid newspaper tz (Munich), the Kreiszeitung in Syke, the Oranienburger Generalanzeiger, the Altmark-Zeitung, the Fehmarnsche Tageblatt, the Offenbach-Post in Offenbach am Main, and the Hessische/Niedersächsische Allgemeine in Kassel.

As with many other newspapers, restructuring measures have also cost the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten jobs in recent years.

In 2004, the online edition and accounting were taken over by the editorial staff of the Westfälischer Anzeiger in Hamm, resulting in the loss of jobs in Lüdenscheid.

The companies left the Publishers' Association, and new employees are no longer paid according to collective bargaining agreements.