SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – A newspaper company that owns four newspapers in South Dakota shut down abruptly on Wednesday.

An editor with the Huron Plainsman posted on Facebook he was one of “hundreds of employees across five states” that was laid off effective on Wednesday.

“The Plainsman shut its doors today as part of the entire 25-paper collection of News Media Corporation shutting its doors,” Benjamin Chase, who has been an editor for the Huron Plainsman since December 2024, said in a post.

News Media Corporation, based in Illinois, shut down the Huron Plainsman, Brookings Register, Moody County Enterprise and the Redfield Press on Wednesday, along with newspapers in Arizona, Wyoming, Nebraska and Illinois.

“No one in Huron, nor any of the other papers, knew this was coming today.

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