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
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Black Press buys Akron Beacon Journal for $165 million
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