GateHouse Media

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GateHouse Media
Type
Founded
Headquarters Rochester, New York, USA
Industry Media & Periodicals
Revenue ▲USD (2007)
Net income ▲USD (2007)
Website GateHouse Media

GateHouse Media Inc. NYSE: GHS is a U.S. newspaper publisher, headquartered in Fairport, New York that publishes 87 dailies in 20 states and 198 paid weeklies, in addition to free papers, shoppers and specialty and niche publications.

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[edit] History

Operating until mid-2006 as Liberty Group Publishing, based in Downers Grove, Illinois, the company founded its national presence on several small dailies and weeklies from Canadian firm Hollinger International. Liberty doubled its size when, in May 2006, it announced it would acquire Community Newspaper Company of Massachusetts, the publisher of four daily and almost 100 weekly newspapers in the Boston area. At the same time, Liberty bought Community Newspaper competitor Enterprise News Media.[1] By the end of the year, the company had also announced it would acquire Journal Register Company's properties in southeastern Massachusetts.[2]

After the purchase of Community Newspaper and Enterprise Newsmedia, Liberty changed its name to GateHouse Media and moved its headquarters to upstate New York. It also "went public" with an IPO in October 2006. Company executives said GateHouse's focus on "hyper-local" journalism -- small newspapers covering small cities and towns with a depth that big newspapers and television cannot offer -- would enable it to buck downward trends in the newspaper industry.[3]

On October 23, 2007, GateHouse announced it was purchasing 14 daily newspapers and other publications from Morris Communications.[1]

[edit] Holdings

[edit] Daily Newspapers

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Iowa

Illinois

Kansas

Louisiana

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Missouri

North Dakota

Nebraska

New York

Oklahoma

Ohio

Pennsylvania

South Dakota

Tennessee

West Virginia

[edit] Nondaily Publications

[edit] Corporate governance

December 2006[4]

  • Michael E. Reed, chief executive officer
  • Mark R. Thompson, chief financial officer
  • Paul Ameden, chief information officer
  • Bill Blevins, vice president of online operations
  • Scott T. Champion, co-president and co-COO for Western Region
  • Kirk A. Davis, president and publisher for GateHouse Media New England
  • Gene A. Hall, executive vice president responsible for Northern Midwest Region
  • Linda A. Hill, corporate controller
  • Amy V. Kahn, director of human resources
  • Kelly M. Luvison, executive vice president responsible for Atlantic Region
  • Polly G. Sack, general counsel
  • Caroll Stacklin, director for strategic operations and acting publisher of Suburban Chicago Newspaper Group

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ The Patriot Ledger at SouthofBoston.com
  2. ^ http://www.heraldnews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17540128&BRD=1710&PAG=461&dept_id=99784&rfi=6
  3. ^ Odd timing for GateHouse Media's IPO - The Boston Globe
  4. ^ GateHouse Media, Inc. - Management

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