# Newz Group

> Newz Group is a family-owned Columbia, Missouri media-monitoring company whose unusual advantage sits below the open web: direct relationships with state press associations and access to small, rural, paywalled, and print-only newspapers. Its NewsRadar platform brings those print mentions together with online news, social media, television, and radio, while related services cover analytics, press-release distribution, journalist contacts, public-notice lead finding, digital archiving, and e-edition hosting.

- **Founded:** 1995
- **Headquarters:** Columbia, United States
- **Founders:** Brad Buchanan (Founder and former President/CEO)
- **Products:** NewsRadar, Print Monitoring, Online, Social, and Broadcast Monitoring, ContentDesk, Public Notice and Bid Monitoring
- **Notable:** Built direct press-association relationships across 12 states., Internally monitors more than 1,900 newspaper publications, roughly one-third of U.S. newspapers., Processes more than 200,000 newspaper pages each month and monitors more than 36,000 U.S. news websites in real time.

## Products & services

- **NewsRadar** — A cross-media platform for collecting, organizing, alerting on, analyzing, and reporting print, online, social, television, and radio mentions.
- **Print Monitoring** — Licensed monitoring of local, rural, regional, paywalled, e-edition, and print-only newspapers through direct press-association relationships.
- **Online, Social, and Broadcast Monitoring** — Real-time tracking of online news and social channels plus television and radio coverage, with transcripts, sentiment, reach, clipping, and alerts.
- **ContentDesk** — An integrated PR workspace for drafting, distributing, and measuring press releases and newsletters, supported by a database of more than 250,000 international media contacts.
- **Public Notice and Bid Monitoring** — Monitoring of public notices, municipal activity, requests for proposals, and local reporting for early business-development signals.
- **Publisher Services** — Digital archiving, public-notice websites, searchable newspaper archives, and affordable e-edition hosting for publishers and press associations.
- **InfoBoards** — Automated visual dashboards that summarize volume, reach, topics, sentiment, and social signals for selected issues or brands.

## Achievements

- Built direct press-association relationships across 12 states.
- Internally monitors more than 1,900 newspaper publications, roughly one-third of U.S. newspapers.
- Processes more than 200,000 newspaper pages each month and monitors more than 36,000 U.S. news websites in real time.
- Passed 20 million archived PDF newspaper pages in 2015.
- Expanded from traditional print clipping into online news in 2015 and social and broadcast monitoring in 2019.
- Provided three months of no-cost e-edition hosting to U.S. community newspapers during the early COVID-19 disruption.
- Won public-sector work including a GSA media-clipping software purchase order with a potential value of $206,862.50 and a $7,560 Texas Historical Commission purchase in fiscal 2022.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Published a guide to media-monitoring dashboards and continued positioning dashboards as decision tools rather than clip repositories.
- **2026-02** — Published a playbook for converting public notices and local reporting into business-development leads.
- **2025-12** — Explained its hybrid model for covering news that online-only monitoring misses, especially paywalled and physical local newspapers.
- **2025-05** — Demonstrated InfoBoards with an automated tariff-news tracker comparing coverage volume, reach, sentiment, topics, and social signals.

## Links

- Website: https://newzgroup.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/newz-group
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NewzGroup
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Newz-Group/100089922897759/

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Last updated: 2026-09-21