Northern News Services

NNSL Media.
Company typePrivate
IndustryPublishing
FoundedYellowknife, Northwest Territories (1972)
Headquarters
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
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Number of locations
1 main office, 5 news bureaus:
Inuvik, Hay River, Fort Simpson, Rankin Inlet, Iqaluit
Area served
Northwest Territories, Nunavut
Key people
J.W. (Sig) Sigvaldason (Founder)
Bruce Valpy (Publisher)
ProductsNewspapers
OwnerBlack Press
Number of employees
60 (2007)
WebsiteNorthern News Services

NNSL Media (Northern News Services LTD) is a news and media company based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. It is one of the few remaining independent newspaper companies in Canada, producing all-original content with little to no reliance on syndicated news. NNSL publishes seven different papers weekly: Kivalliq News, Inuvik Drum, Yellowknifer (Wednesday and Friday editions), News/North (Northwest Territories News/North and Nunavut News/North).

In March 2017, NNSL Media ceased publication of the weekly the Deh Cho Drum newspaper after 23 years.[1]

In March 2021, Black Press, a Canadian publisher of over 170 newspapers in Canada and the United States, purchased NNSL.[2] According to a report, NNSL had been on sale for over a year.[3]

  1. ^ Thomson, Jimmy (2013-03-29). "After 23 years, N.W.T.'s Deh Cho Drum newspaper suspends publication". CBC. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  2. ^ "Black Press Media acquires Northern News Services papers in NWT and Nunavut". Yukon News. 2021-03-11. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
  3. ^ "Black Press in negotiations to take over NNSL papers". February 2, 2021. Archived from the original on February 2, 2021. Retrieved February 2, 2021.