In 2025, Dirks, Van Essen & April facilitated a broad range of media transactions involving dozens of publications across nine states. These transactions spanned daily and weekly newspapers, regional lifestyle magazines and specialty publications, and included the
largest media transaction of the year by dollar value.
Viewed together, the year’s deal activity, pricing outcomes and buyer participation point to a more disciplined and resilient market, offering encouraging signals about stabilizing valuations, improving seller confidence, and increasingly strategic buyer behavior as
the industry moves into 2026.
