''National Mortgage News'' is a digital media website covering the

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sector in the United States. Its editor is Austin Kilgore, and its publisher is Dennis Strong. ''National Mortgage News'' is owned by

SourceMedia Arizent, formerly known as SourceMedia, is a mid-sized diversified business-to-business digital media company owned by Observer Capital, which acquired the company from Investcorp in August 2014. Formerly the Thomson Media division of The Thomso ...

History

''National Mortgage Newss predecessor, ''National Thrift News'', was founded in 1976 by Stan Strachan, Wesley Lindow, and John R. Glynn. In 1988 ''National Thrift News'' won the

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in Financial Reporting for its coverage of the savings and loan crisis; in September 1987 it had been the first media outlet to break the

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story. p. 185. In 1989, it was the first to report on political considerations having delayed the closing of the

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-directed Silverado Savings and Loan in Denver. Subsequently, as thrift institutions began failing, it changed its name to ''National Thrift and Mortgage News'', and then in 1992 to ''National Mortgage News''. In 1995 Faulkner and Gray, which itself was part of the

Thomson Corporation The Thomson Corporation was one of the world's largest information companies. It was established in 1989 following a merger between International Thomson Organisation Ltd (ITOL) and Thomson Newspapers. In 2008, it purchased Reuters Group to fo ...

, acquired ''National Mortgage News''. Stan Strachan remained publisher until his death in early 1997, at which point Tim Murphy took over as publisher of the paper. After a reorganization in 2000, the paper became part of Thomson Media, which in turn was sold by its parent company to Investcorp and renamed

. Observer Capital acquired the company from Investcorp in August 2014. Dennis Strong became publisher of ''National Mortgage News'' and SourceMedia's Mortgage Group in 2015. The paper's target audience is the 280,600-strong US mortgage sector. ''National Mortgage News'' has a circulation of about 8,000. About three quarters of subscribers are C-level executives.

Key employees

VP/Group Publisher

Dennis Strong

Editorial

*Bonnie Sinnock, Capital Markets Editor *Tana Tymesen, Opinion Editor *Bradley Finkelstein, Originations Editor *Elina Tarkazikis, Reporter *Kate Berry, Reporter

Sales

*Patrick Myers, Sales Manager, East Coast *Kimberlee Baker, Sales Manager, West Coast

Footnotes

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External links

National Mortgage News website
Mortgage industry of the United States Publications established in 1976 National newspapers published in the United States