King County Journal Newspapers
Headquarters: Kent, WA
Daily newspapers: King County Journal. Weekday circulation: 39,109
Weekly newspapers: Mercer Island Reporter, Snoqualmie Valley Record
Twice-monthly newspapers: Auburn Reporter, Bellevue Reporter, Bothell/Kenmore Reporter, Covington/Maple Valley Reporter, Kent Reporter, Redmond Reporter, Renton Reporter
Other holdings: Commercial printing operation
Black Press
Headquarters: Victoria, B.C.
Ownership: David Black family, Victoria — 81 percent; Torstar (owner of Toronto Star) — 19 percent.
Puget Sound holdings: Black's Sound Publishing subsidiary, based on Bainbridge Island, publishes 18 papers, mostly weeklies and bi-weeklies, in Western Washington, including the Bainbridge Island Review, Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber and Federal Way Mirror. In September, Sound acquired Little Nickel Classifieds of Lynnwood.
Other holdings: In June, Black Press bought the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal, a former Knight-Ridder newspaper, for $165 million. It also owns the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and Red Deer (Alberta) Advocate, both dailies, and more than 75 community newspapers in British Columbia.
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