GateHouse Media sells Colorado newspapers

Whether this is the beginning of a series of sales predicted by some analysts or just getting rid of some newspapers that didn't fit in with its clustering strategy is difficult to tell, but financially troubled GateHouse Media sold three Colorado newspapers this week:

Telluride’s daily newspaper has been sold to Boulder’s Randy Miller, a lifetime newspaperman who’s had his eye on this town’s paper for more than three decades.
Miller, a former editor who owns a weekly newspaper in suburban Tucson, bought the Telluride Daily Planet in a deal that was finalized Thursday.

In the deal, Miller also bought the Planet’s sister papers, the weekly newspapers the Norwood Post and the Silverton Standard & Miner. The Standard is the longest continuously operating business on the Western Slope.

The papers had been owned by Gatehouse Media, a New York conglomerate that publishes nearly 300 papers across the nation.

GateHouse Media owns The Carthage Press, Neosho Daily News, and numerous other publications in Missouri and Kansas.