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| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Newspapers |
| Headquarters | Jackson, Mississippi , United States |
Emmerich Newspapers is a privately held American publisher of community newspapers based in Jackson, Mississippi.[1] The company owns 22 newspapers.
History
[edit]Members of the Emmerich family have been active in Mississippi journalism since the early twentieth century, notably editor and publisher J. Oliver Emmerich Sr. of the Enterprise-Journal in McComb; the Mississippi Press Association’s annual J. O. Emmerich Award for editorial writing is named in his honor.[2][3]
One Emmerich-owned weekly, the Rankin Record, ceased publication in 2015.[4]
Beginning in 2021, Emmerich Newspapers pursued copyright claims against Particle Media, Inc., operator of the NewsBreak app, in federal court in Mississippi. The litigation concerned NewsBreak's use of Emmerich articles and raised questions about the "server test", a copyright doctrine involving embedded online content. In July 2025, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi issued a mixed summary judgment ruling, including rulings on NewsBreak's full-text display of some Emmerich material and on whether Emmerich article URLs constituted copyright management information under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.[5][6][7]
The case was appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, where Emmerich challenged the district court's application of the server test and its ruling that URLs did not constitute copyright management information. Legal-news outlets described the appeal as significant for websites and applications that embed or display online content without hosting the material on their own servers.[8][9]
In February 2025, a Mississippi chancery judge ordered the Emmerich-owned Clarksdale Press Register to remove an editorial criticizing city officials, drawing national criticism from press-freedom advocates; the city soon dropped its lawsuit and the judge later vacated the order.[10][11][12]
Publications
[edit]Mississippi
[edit]- Delta Democrat Times (Greenville)
- The Northside Sun (Jackson)
- Enterprise-Journal (McComb)
- The Greenwood Commonwealth (Greenwood)
- Clarksdale Press Register (Clarksdale)
- The Enterprise-Tocsin (Indianola)
- The Sun-Sentinel (Charleston)
- The Star-Herald (Kosciusko)
- The Yazoo Herald (Yazoo City)
- Scott County Times (Forest)
- Clarke County Tribune (Quitman)
- The Newton County Appeal (Union)
- Winona Times/Carroll Conservative (Winona)
- Red Hills News (Louisville)
- Grenada Star (Grenada)
- Columbian Progress (Columbia)
- Magee Courier-Simpson County News (Magee)
- Pine Belt News (Hattiesburg)
Arkansas
[edit]- The Dumas Clarion (Dumas)
Louisiana
[edit]- The Era-Leader (Franklinton)
- The Madison Journal (Tallulah)
References
[edit]- ↑ "Emmerich Newspapers Inc — Company Profile and News". Bloomberg. Retrieved November 5, 2025.
- ↑ "J. Oliver Emmerich Sr". Mississippi Encyclopedia. University Press of Mississippi. April 14, 2018. Retrieved November 5, 2025.
- ↑ "J. O. Emmerich Award". Mississippi Press Association. Retrieved November 5, 2025.
- ↑ "Rankin weekly newspaper closes". The Clarion-Ledger. November 27, 2015. Retrieved November 5, 2025.
- ↑ "COPYRIGHT—S.D. Miss.: The Ninth Circuit's server test reaches the Deep South". VitalLaw. Wolters Kluwer. August 1, 2025. Retrieved June 5, 2026.
- ↑ Emmerich Newspapers, Inc. v. Particle Media, Inc. (S.D. Miss. July 29, 2025), Text.
- ↑ "COPYRIGHT—S.D. Miss.: The Ninth Circuit's server test reaches the Deep South". VitalLaw (Wolters Kluwer). August 1, 2025. Retrieved November 5, 2025.
- ↑ "News publishers take fight over copyright of embedded content to Fifth Circuit". Courthouse News Service. June 3, 2026. Retrieved June 5, 2026.
- ↑ "News App Copyright Appeal Has Court Doubting Embed Shield". Bloomberg Law. June 3, 2026. Retrieved June 5, 2026.
- ↑ Branigin, Anne (February 20, 2025). "Mississippi city stuns newspaper with restraining order over editorial". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 5, 2025.
- ↑ DeMillo, Andrew (February 24, 2025). "Mississippi city drops lawsuit over newspaper editorial that judge ordered removed". Associated Press. Retrieved November 5, 2025.
- ↑ DeMillo, Andrew (February 26, 2025). "Mississippi judge vacates her order that a newspaper remove its editorial criticizing local leaders". Associated Press. Retrieved November 5, 2025.
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