NNSL Media (Northern News Services LTD) is a news and media company based in
Yellowknife
Yellowknife (; Dogrib: ) is the capital, largest community, and only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, about south of the Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the ...
,
Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories (abbreviated ''NT'' or ''NWT''; french: Territoires du Nord-Ouest, formerly ''North-Western Territory'' and ''North-West Territories'' and namely shortened as ''Northwest Territory'') is a federal territory of Canada. ...
. 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'', ''
Dehcho Drum'', ''
Yellowknifer'' (Wednesday and Friday editions), ''
News/North
''News/North'' (originally the ''News of the North'') is a newspaper based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, with offices in Fort Smith, Hay River, Fort Providence and Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, as well as Iqaluit and Rankin ...
'' (''Northwest Territories News/North'' and ''Nunavut News/North'').
In March 2021,
Black Press
Black Press Group Ltd. is a Canadian publisher of prominent daily newspapers in Hawaii and Alaska and numerous non-daily newspapers in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada, and (via Sound Publishing) the U.S. state of Washington.
Black Press M ...
, a Canadian publisher of over 170 newspapers in Canada and the United States, purchased NNSL. According to a report, NNSL had been on sale for over a year.
References
Newspaper companies of Canada
Mass media in Yellowknife
Mass media in Nunavut
Mass media in the Northwest Territories
Privately held companies of Canada
Newspapers established in 1972
1972 establishments in Canada
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