Thursday, March 15, 2007

Chain that owns Macomb paper buys Peoria daily

The media company that owns the Macomb Journal, dailies in Canton, Monmouth, Kewanee and Pekin and weeklies -- plus hundreds of newspapers across the country -- is buying the Peoria Journal Star, Galesburg Register-Mail and other publications from Copley Press.
GateHouse Media plans to finalize the purchase next month.
Here's the company's story, as it appeared in Monmouth's Daily Review Atlas -http://www.reviewatlas.com/articles/2007/03/14/news/local/news1.txt
Here's the Register-Mail's take on the transaction, written by John Pulliam - http://www.register-mail.com/stories/031407/MAI_BCL5VKGH.GID.shtml
And here's a second-day follow-up from the Journal Star, with reassurances from GateHouse - http://www.pjstar.com/stories/031507/TRI_BCLA2B7N.027.php

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