Posted on 10/07/2015 10:53:32 PM PDT by Zakeet
Gannett Co. has reached an agreement to acquire newspaper company Journal Media Group for $280 million, giving the media giant control of publications in more than 100 local markets in the U.S., company officials announced Wednesday evening.
Journal Media publications dot the Midwest and South and include the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Memphis (Tennessee) Commercial-Appeal and Knoxville (Tennessee) News Sentinel.
Industry experts say the publications are a natural fit for Gannetts strategy of maximizing short-term profits through managing the decline of publications in less competitive markets.
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Journal Media Group was formed earlier this year, after Journal Communications Inc. of Milwaukee and E.W. Scripps Co. of Cincinnati combined their broadcasting operations under the E.W. Scripps name and spun off newspaper holdings into a separate public entity.
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Now a throw-away in more motels and airport lobbies than ever before ...
The ‘link only’ list will need updating. IIRC All Gannett properties are on it.
Good point.
Jim ... heads up for more additions to your fish-wrap and bird cage liner list!
A Throw-Away, which one, the newspaper or the president?
They keep pushing leftist ideas as their newspaper continues to shrink.
A prime example of "Stuck on Stupid"
This sucks, we can’t post gannett here as it is.
Sounds like Obamas domestic policy... raid the remaining assets while burning everything down
Still don’t understand why there is not a HUGE conservative newspaper monopoly. Are all rich people stupid when it comes to commie propaganda or are they only glad they are above the fray? Can’t we have truth propaganda?
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