Thursday, April 12, 2007

Gannett sells four newspapers to GateHouse Media

Gannett Co., owner of the Springfield News-Leader, has sold four of its daily newspapers to GateHouse Media:

The four papers are the Rockford Register Star, a 65,000-circulation daily in Illinois; the Observer-Dispatch in Utica, N.Y, a 43,000-circulation daily; the Herald-Dispatch in Huntington, W.Va., a 30,000-circulation daily; and the Norwich Bulletin, a 26,000-circulation daily in Connecticut.


GateHouse owns The Carthage Press, Neosho Daily News, Neosho Post, and the Big Nickel in this area.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I feel sorry for the newsrooms at those papers.

Anonymous said...

I hope GateHouse doesn't send Chip Watson to these papers to suck the life out of them.

Anonymous said...

Maybe they could send Hacker. He can save anything...at least according to the former Liberty employee, Randy.