UCC-9 Foreclosure Sale: Z News/Zenger Media Assets

Description

We are pleased to offer at a UCC Article-9 Foreclosure Auction all of the assets of Z News Service, Inc. (aka Zenger News, "Z News")  The foreclosure auction will be held via Zoom on March 28th, Qualifying Bids due by March 25th. See Notice of Sale posted on the Auction Advisors website for more details.  Credit Bid anticipated to be: $1,935,175.70.

Z News is the world’s first digitally native wire service.  Z News is dedicated to bringing high-quality news content to overlooked communities and promoting the broadest possible variety of voices and subjects. Z News’ stories are created by its more than 5,000 correspondents across 120 countries, as well as dozens of independent news rooms, including AccuWeather, Benzinga, and Jewish News Syndicate.  Z News is a wire service that distributes news stories and images to online and traditional news outlets that collectively serve more than 1 billion readers across the United States and the world.  Z News supplies print and video stories to hundreds of news outlets including Forbes, Newsweek, The New York Post, The Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Kansas City Star, The Charlotte Observer, The Wichita Eagle, The Lexington Herald Leader, The Beaufort Gazette, as well as Apple News, Google News, Yahoo! News, AOL, SmartNews, Dailymotion, many black-owned and Latino newspapers, and the websites of many radio and television stations.


Assets for Sale:
(i)  Paper, and electronic (if any) books, records, files, formulas, papers, credit reports, and accounts receivable histories, including but not limited to invoices, customer purchase orders, and delivery receipts, as well as sales histories, payment histories, costs of goods, Airtable customer lists, and any other records relating to the sale and delivery of products by Z News;
(ii) Vehicles, machinery, fixtures, equipment, furniture, routers of Z News;
(iii) Goods and inventory of  Z News;
(iv) Worldwide intellectual property rights, Z News news production software application, source codes, firmware, data, etc., software license for Docusign, software license for Carta, all copyrights, trademarks, and patent and patent applications, together with all associated expressions and license rights; any names used in trade, and other intellectual property and general intangibles;
(v)  Internet domain names of zengerdev.com; zengernewsservice; com; zenger.news; zengernewsservice.org; zenger.app; zengerdigital.com; zenger.dev; zenger.digital; smartnewsquiz.com;
(vi)  Z News' name, domain name and other brand names and trademarks.