NNSL Media (Northern News Services LTD) is a news and media company based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. 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, Yellowknifer (Wednesday and Friday editions), News/North (Northwest Territories News/North and Nunavut News/North).
In March 2017, NNSL Media ceased publication of the weekly the Deh Cho Drum newspaper after 23 years.[1]
In March 2021, Black Press, a Canadian publisher of over 170 newspapers in Canada and the United States, purchased NNSL.[2] According to a report, NNSL had been on sale for over a year.[3]
In January 2025, NNSL shuttered the Inuvik Drum. The newspaper was first published on Jan. 6, 1966 and had been owned by the company since 1988.[4]
References
- Jimmy Thomson. After 23 years, N.W.T.'s Deh Cho Drum newspaper suspends publication CBC, March 29, 2017, retrieved 2023-03-25^
- Black Press Media acquires Northern News Services papers in NWT and Nunavut Yukon News, 2021-03-11, retrieved 2022-09-11^
- Black Press in negotiations to take over NNSL papers February 2, 2021, retrieved February 2, 2021^
- Jorge Antunes. NNSL Media shutters Inuvik Drum newspaper Nunatsiaq News, January 23, 2025, retrieved 2025-01-23^