Miller Publishing Company
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The Miller Publishing Company was established by siblings Donald Miller and Donna (Miller) Reddington in 2002 to purchase four small weekly newspapers in southwestern Ohio from Cox Communications. Two of the papers are in Warren County, the Franklin Chronicle in Franklin and the Star-Press in Springboro, the Germantown Press. The remaining papers are in Montgomery County, the Miamisburg-West Carrollton News in Miamisburg and the Germantown Press in Germantown. The company's headquarters is in Miamisburg.
The four papers had been owned by the Canadian newspaper giant Thomson. Thomson had acquired the Chronicle in 1976 and the Star Press and News in 1998 from the Brown Publishing Company, the company founded by Clarence J. Brown. When Thomson decided to exit the newspaper business in 2000, the papers were sold to Cox Communications, along with ten other papers, including the daily Middletown Journal and Ohio's oldest weekly, The Western Star, effective September 2, 2000. In August 2002, Cox announced it would sell the Germantown and Miamisburg papers and shutter the Franklin and Springboro papers, which were established in 1872 and 1976, respectively. However, Cox sold all four papers to the newly formed Miller Publishing Company on November 1, 2002. Donald Miller was a former executive of Brown Publishing.
The company struggled with the purchase and filed for bankruptcy protection January 16, 2004.
[edit] External links
- Official corporate site
- Franklin Chronicle
- Miamisburg-West Carrollton News Does not link to the page of the paper!
- Springboro Star Press
- Germantown Press This does not link to the page of this newspaper.
[edit] References
- Felicity Barringer. "Increased Consolidation in the Newspaper Industry". The New York Times. June 9, 2000. C2.
- Jon Bohmer. "Cox acquires papers." Dayton Daily News. September 2, 2000. 1A.
- "Cox Changes Ohio Group Leadership". Dayton Daily News. December 15, 2002. F1. (Clark's appointment)
- "Cox Sells Four Weekly Newspapers". Dayton Daily News. October 11, 2002. E1.
- John Eckberg. "134 papers on the block." The Cincinnati Enquirer. February 16, 2000. B10.
- John Eckberg. "Enquirer's parent buys Ohio papers." The Cincinnati Enquirer. June 9, 2000. D10.
- John Eckberg. "Cox buys 12 area newspapers." The Cincinnati Enquirer. July 15, 2000. 1C.
- "4 Weeklies to Publish While Sale Talks Continue". Dayton Daily News. August 24, 2002. E1.
- Angelle Haney. "Miller Publishing Files for Chapter 11". Dayton Daily News. January 17, 2004. B4.
- Lynn Hulsey. "Gannett to buy Thompson newspapers". Dayton Daily News. June 9, 2000. A1.
- Lynn Hulsey. "Other papers to join Cox". Dayton Daily News. September 2, 2000. 1E.
- "'Middletown Journal' Names New Editor". Dayton Daily News. July 28, 2003. D3.
- "Miller Publishing Forms From Cox Newspapers". Dayton Daily News. November 2, 2002. E1.
- Matthew Rose. "Thomson Agrees to Sell 38 of 54 Dailies to Gannett and Community Newspapers". The Wall Street Journal. June 9, 2000. A6.
