Akron Beacon Journal
The Akron Beacon Journal will become the largest newspaper owned by the private, family-owned Black Press of British Columbia, Canada. The Beacon Journal, with a Sunday circulation of about 179,000, is about twice the size of Black Press' largest paper, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. CEO
David Black recently lost bids to buy the two Philadelphia newspapers and a group of weeklies sold by the Boston Herald. "I wasn't going to lose a third time," he says.
> Other KR papers sold:
Fort Wayne News-Sentinel ||
Duluth News Tribune ||
Grand Forks Herald ||
Aberdeen American News
