Monday, April 16, 2018

Read it and weep

Newspaper Death Watch


R.I.P.

North American metro dailies that have closed since March, 2007

















  • W.I.P.

Works In Progress: Major metro dailies that have cut frequency or adopted hybrid online/print or online-only models.












 

GateHouse has agreed to acquire The Palm Beach Post and the Palm Beach Daily News, in addition to several niche publications and companion websites, from Cox Media Group LLC for $49.25 million.

Ogden Newspapers, Inc., a family owned newspaper group with 43 daily newspapers in 16 states, took over Byrd Newspapers, including Winchester Star, Harrisonburg Daily News-Record, Shenandoah Valley-Herald and Skyline publications.

The Byrd family has been in the publishing business in the Shenandoah Valley since 1897.

Ogden Newspapers was founded by H.C. Ogden in 1890 when he began publishing the Wheeling (WV) Journal.

In 1912 Harry F. Byrd Sr. sold the Martinsburg Journal, which he founded in 1907, to Ogden Newspapers.

Ogden, headquartered in Wheeling, West Virginia, also publishes newspapers in Florida, Hawaii, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Utah.

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