Friday, September 30, 2011

Ozaukee Sunday Post Closes

Lakeshore Newspapers closed the Ozaukee Sunday Post on September 25th, 2011, in order to focus on their Ozaukee Guide product.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

McMinnville Village Advocate Closed

The McMinnville Village Advocate, a weekly free publication with approximately 28,000 circulation closed in August 2011.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Centralia Chronicle to Drop to Three Day Distribution

The Centralia Chronicle announced that effective November 1st, it will cease publishing Monday through Saturday, and will instead publish only on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Friday, September 16, 2011

Hemet Valley Chronicle Sold and to Remain Open

The Hemet Valley Chronicle has been sold to a Nevada newspaper group and will remain open.  Last week the Century Group had announced it was closing the publication.

Monday, September 12, 2011

Hemet Valley Chronicle to Close

The Hemet Valley Chronicle, a community paper owned by Century Group Newspapers, will cease publishing after its September 16th, 2011 edition.  The Valley Chronicle was launched in 2001, and has a weekly circulation of approximately 27,000.

[Editor Note: On September 15th it was announced the Hemet Valley Chronicle was sold and will remain open]

Thursday, September 1, 2011

St. Augustine Underground Closes

Osteen Publishing acquired the Ponte Vedra Recorder, Clay Today and the St. Augustine Underground this week.  The Underground, a monthly publication, was then closed effectively immediately.

Osteen Publishing owns the Sumter Item.

Chicago Tribune Drops Tabloid Single Copy Version

The Chicago Tribune will discontinue its tabloid single copy edition effective September 2, 2011.  The Tribune had launched the tabloid version in 2009 to compete for the Chicago Sun-Times single copy readership.  It would return its single copy to the paper's standard broadsheet format.