Change-Maker

Naples billionaire keeps up major investment in newspapers

David Hoffmann, who grew up in a small town with a strong local paper, believes the newspaper industry can bounces back with strong local coverage and sound business practices.

  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 5:00 a.m. September 12, 2025
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David Hoffmann believes the lack of print newspapers covering local, community news is an opportunity for Hoffmann Media Group and the Hoffmann Family of Companies.
David Hoffmann believes the lack of print newspapers covering local, community news is an opportunity for Hoffmann Media Group and the Hoffmann Family of Companies.
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While much of the conversation about newspapers in the past 20 years has centered on job cuts, contraction and falling readership, there is an entrepreneur in Naples who sees a way to breathe new life into the troubled industry.

And he is putting his considerable wealth and the heft of his business empire behind it.

 

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