NEBRASKA CITY – Cherry Road Media acquired 20 newspapers from Gannett Co. on Sept. 24, including the Nebraska City News-Press and Syracuse Journal-Democrat in Nebraska and Hamburg Reporter in Iowa.

A company press release says this is its largest acquisition to date. The subsidiary of Cherry Road Technologies entered the newspaper industry in late 2020 with the purchase of the weekly Cook County News-Herald in Minnesota.

The Parsippany, New Jersey-based technology company has been in business since 1983.

Company CEO Jeremy Gulban says the company decided late last year to look at the local newspaper industry because it felt there was a need for an infusion of technology from a supportive side as opposed to a competitive side.