TownNews
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TownNews.com is a company founded by CEO Marc Wilson, Robert P. Dalton, and Virginia R. Wilson as the International Newspaper Network (INN) in 1989 to help newspapers deal with developing technology. With the increasing popularity of the World Wide Web in the mid-1990s, efforts focused on helping newspapers bring their content to the Internet. Today, TownNews.com helps more than 1,500 newspapers publish interactive editions on the World Wide Web of the Internet using automation technology.
TownNews.com is headquartered in Moline, Illinois. It maintains additional offices in East Greenbush, New York, Manhattan, New York, and Big Fork, Montana (where it was founded.)
Lee Enterprises, the fourth-largest newspaper group in the United States is an 83% stakeholder of TownNews.com. Lee Enterprises became the majority partner in 1996.
Over the years, TownNews.com has acquired various organizations, most notably ZWire and AdQuest.
