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Mainstream Data announces acquisition of global content syndication company Newscom
Mainstream Data, a Salt Lake City, UT based content delivery and communications company, announced that it has acquired Newscom, LLC, from its prior owners (a 50/50 joint venture between Tribune Media Services, and The McClatchy Company). Newscom was founded in 1985 as a one-stop resource for content (stories and images) used by a wide variety of information companies. Newscom currently represents content from more than 115 partners , including the Agence France Press, the BBC, Deutsche Presse Agentur, Dorling Kindersley, Getty Images, Jupiterimages, McClatchy-Tribune Information Services, Reuters and many others. In addition, Newscom has an offering of more than 19 million rights-managed and royalty-free photos, graphics, illustrations, news stories, and features, making Newscom one of the largest content collections in the world.
“Newscom has a powerful brand and a stellar reputation for providing outstanding content and superior customer service,” said Scott E. Calder, President and CEO of Mainstream Data. “The marriage of Mainstream’s first-class data delivery services with Newscom’s unparalleled photos, graphics and related content is great news for customers. Publishers worldwide will benefit from access to the content they need, when they need it, and now delivered via the most robust and reliable networks available anywhere.”
“At Newscom, we strive every day to provide our customers in the publishing community with the most compelling content available, and to deliver that material to them in a manner that best suits their needs,” said Bill Creighton, Newscom’s General Manager. “In addition to continuing to improve our current platform, Mainstream will provide Newscom the development resources and support infrastructure needed to create, manage and deliver our content directly to the desktops and into the workflow of our customers around the world.”
Mainstream Data has stated that Newscom will operate as an independent and wholly owned subsidiary headquartered in the Washington, D.C. area. The company will also open a sales office in New York City later this summer. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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