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Detroit Free Press (owned by Gannett), The Detroit News is one of Detroit's two major daily newspapers. (The two papers' business operations are managed by the Detroit Media Partnership, which oversees business, marketing, and manufacturing operations while the newspapers keep separate editorial staffs.) The Detroit News boasts a daily circulation of about 180,000, and also operates on the Web through Detroit News Online. The paper was founded in 1873 and was acquired by Gannett in 1986. It was sold to MediaNews Group in 2005.

The Dispatch Printing Company is a leading regional media company anchored by its flagship newspaper The Columbus Dispatch. It also owns a portfolio of more than 20 community papers through subsidiary ThisWeek Community Newspapers, and it publishes Columbus Parent, a free monthly magazine on parenting. Its Dispatch Broadcast Group owns and operates two TV stations, the WBNS radio station, the Ohio News Network radio service, and a 24-hour cable news channel. Dispatch Printing also has a stake in the Columbus Blue Jackets hockey team. The Columbus Dispatch traces its roots to 1871, when it was first published as The Daily Dispatch. The Wolfe family, led by chairman John Wolfe, has owned the company since 1905.

The E. W. Scripps Company is a diverse media concern with interests in newspaper publishing, broadcast television stations, and licensing and syndication.Scripps operates daily and community newspapers in 14 markets, and 10 broadcast TV stations.Scripps also operates Scripps Howard News Service and United Media, the worldwide syndication home of Peanuts, Dilbert and 150 other features and characters.

The McClatchy Company dates to the California Gold Rush era of 1857, when James McClatchy was one of the founding editors of its first newspaper, The Sacramento Bee -- one of the oldest newspapers in the West. Coverage of California’s Central Valley expanded with the founding of The Fresno Bee in 1922 and the purchase of The Modesto Bee in 1927.For more than a century, California was the cornerstone of the company. In 1979, McClatchy expanded into the Northwest with the purchase of the Anchorage Daily News and the Tri-City Herald in Kennewick, Wash. In 1986, The News Tribune in Tacoma, Wash., was added to McClatchy’s growing family of newspapers. The company went public in February 1988 and its Class A common shares are listed on The New York Stock Exchange under the symbol MNI. The company’s Class B common stock, which controls a majority of shareholder voting power, is not publicly traded.In 1990, McClatchy began publishing on the East Coast with the purchase of three daily newspapers in South Carolina: The Herald in Rock Hill, The Island Packet on Hilton Head Island, and The Beaufort Gazette. The company entered North Carolina in 1995 with the acquisition of The News & Observer in Raleigh and several affiliated non-dailies. McClatchy Interactive, known as Nando Media prior to 2005, was created by The News & Observer and acquired by McClatchy when it bought the newspaper. The Star Tribune, which serves the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, was acquired in 1998 and positioned the company in four distinct, fast-growing regions in the nation.

The New York Observer covers the news and gossip of Gotham's social elite. The paper focuses much of its attention on the high and mighty within the media industry, as well as movers and shakers in New York City's real estate business. The company also publishes The Commercial Observer covering the commercial real estate market. In addition to its print publication, The New York Observer distributes content online. Former investment banker Arthur Carter started The New York Observer in 1987. The company is now owned by Jared Kushner, son of New Jersey developer Charles Kushner.

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