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The Seattle Times Company
The Seattle Times Company is a privately owned publisher of daily and weekly newspapers in the U.S. state of Washington. Founded in Seattle, Washington in 1896, the company is now in its fourth and fifth generations of ownership by the Blethen family. Properties In its headquarters city of Seattle, the company owns Washington's largest-circulation daily newspaper, ''The Seattle Times''. Elsewhere in Washington, the company owns the ''Yakima Herald-Republic'' and ''Walla Walla Union-Bulletin''. Maine-native schoolteacher and attorney Alden J. Blethen bought the ''Seattle Press-Times'' in 1896, renaming it the ''Seattle Daily Times'' and doubling its circulation to 7,000 six months later. When he died in 1915, the ''Times''' circulation was 70,000. The two smaller dailies were added much later. The ''Walla Walla Union-Bulletin'' was purchased from the Kelly family in 1971, while the ''Yakima Herald-Republic'' was bought in 1991. Issaquah Press Inc. The Seattle Times Company a ...
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Private Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned, traded, exchanged privately, or Over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter. In the case of a closed corporation, there are a relatively small number of shareholders or company members. Related terms are closely-held corporation, unquoted company, and unlisted company. Though less visible than their public company, publicly traded counterparts, private companies have major importance in the world's economy. In 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for ($1.8 trillion) in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In 2005, using a substantially smaller pool size (22.7%) for comparison, the 339 companies on ...
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Newspaper Of Record
A newspaper of record is a major national newspaper with large circulation whose editorial and news-gathering functions are considered authoritative and independent; they are thus "newspapers of record by reputation" and include some of the oldest and most widely respected newspapers in the world. The level and trend in the number of "newspapers of record by reputation" is regarded as being related to the state of press freedom and political freedom in a country. It may also be a newspaper that has been authorized to publish public or legal notices, thus serving as a newspaper of public record. Newspapers whose editorial content is largely directed by the state can be referred to as an official newspaper of record, but the lack of editorial independence means that they are not "newspapers of record by reputation". Newspapers of record by reputation that focus on business can also be called newspapers of financial record. Newspapers of public record A "newspaper of publ ...
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The Seattle Times Company
The Seattle Times Company is a privately owned publisher of daily and weekly newspapers in the U.S. state of Washington. Founded in Seattle, Washington in 1896, the company is now in its fourth and fifth generations of ownership by the Blethen family. Properties In its headquarters city of Seattle, the company owns Washington's largest-circulation daily newspaper, ''The Seattle Times''. Elsewhere in Washington, the company owns the ''Yakima Herald-Republic'' and ''Walla Walla Union-Bulletin''. Maine-native schoolteacher and attorney Alden J. Blethen bought the ''Seattle Press-Times'' in 1896, renaming it the ''Seattle Daily Times'' and doubling its circulation to 7,000 six months later. When he died in 1915, the ''Times''' circulation was 70,000. The two smaller dailies were added much later. The ''Walla Walla Union-Bulletin'' was purchased from the Kelly family in 1971, while the ''Yakima Herald-Republic'' was bought in 1991. Issaquah Press Inc. The Seattle Times Company a ...
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Morning Sentinel
The ''Morning Sentinel'' is an American daily newspaper published six mornings a week in Waterville, Maine. It is owned by MaineToday Media. The newspaper covers cities and towns in parts of Franklin, Kennebec, Penobscot and Somerset counties. The paper is printed at the ''Portland Press Herald'' press in South Portland, Maine. History Founded in 1904 by officials of the Waterville Democratic Party—Waterville mayor Cyrus Davis; future U.S. Senator Charles Fletcher Johnson; and future mayor L. Eugene Thayer, leavened by newspaper veteran Thomas F. Murphy—the ''Waterville Morning Sentinel'', within a year, grew from a three-desk operation to requiring its own building, on Silver Street.CentralMaine.com: About
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In 1911, a financially ailing Davis sold the paper to bond holders; ten years later, it was ...
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Kennebec Journal
The ''Kennebec Journal'' is a six-day morning daily newspaper published in Augusta, Maine. It is owned by MaineToday Media, which also publishes the state's largest newspaper, the ''Portland Press Herald''. The newspaper covers Augusta and the surrounding capital area and southern Kennebec County. Known colloquially as the "KJ". History ''The Kennebec Journal'' began publishing as a weekly newspaper in 1825, five years after Maine had become a state."The Old South". ''The Washington Post''. August 4, 1906. p. 6. James G. Blaine bought half of the newspaper in 1854 and became its editor. Blaine later served as United States Senator from Maine from 1876 to 1881, United States Secretary of State in 1881 and from 1889 to 1892. He was also the Republican Party's nominee for president during the 1884 election. In November 1922, Charles F. Flint, general manager of ''The Kennebec Journal'', and his three sons, Roy, Charles, and Leigh, purchased stock control of the newspaper. ...
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Portland Press Herald
The ''Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram'' is a morning daily newspaper with a website that serves southern Maine and is focused on the greater metropolitan area around Portland, Maine, in the United States. Founded in 1862, its roots extend to Maine’s earliest newspapers, the ''Falmouth Gazette & Weekly Advertiser'', started in 1785, and the ''Eastern Argus'', first published in Portland in 1803. For most of the 20th century, it was the cornerstone of Guy Gannett Communications, before being sold to The Seattle Times Company in 1998. Today, it is the flagship of MaineToday Media publications, headquartered in South Portland, and is part of the state’s largest news-gathering organization, including the newspapers of the Lewiston-based Sun Media Group. History 19th century origins ''The Portland Daily Press'' was founded in June 1862 by J. T. Gilman, Joseph B. Hall, and Newell A. Foster as a new Republican paper. Its first issue, published June 23, 1862, annou ...
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Gannett
Gannett Co., Inc. () is an American mass media holding company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.Tysons Corner CDP, Virginia
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It is the largest U.S. publisher as measured by total daily circulation. Massive layoffs and cessation of newspapers occurrred in November and December, 2022. It owns the



Guy Gannett Communications
Guy Gannett Communications was a family-owned business consisting of newspapers in Maine and a handful of television stations in the eastern United States. The company was founded by its namesake, Guy P. Gannett, in 1921, and was managed by a family trust from 1954 to 1998, when it sold most of its properties to The Seattle Times Company and Sinclair Broadcast Group. History William Howard Gannett, of Augusta, Maine, first published ''Comfort'' magazine in 1888—an eight-page advertisement for a patent medicine—but it was his son, Guy Patterson Gannett, who headed the push into daily journalism. After a stint helping with the magazine after leaving Yale University in 1901, the junior Gannett went into local politics. By 1920, he was a prominent citizen in Augusta, Maine. Two daily newspaper owners representing the ''Portland Herald'' and the ''Portland Daily Press'' approached him and asked him to buy them out. Gannett invested in both companies.Wickenheiser, Matt"A Rich Hi ...
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MaineToday Media
MaineToday Media is a privately owned publisher of daily and weekly newspapers in the U.S. state of Maine, based in the state's largest city, Portland. It includes the ''Portland Press Herald'' and ''Maine Sunday Telegram'', the state's largest newspaper. Properties MaineToday's daily newspapers include the ''Portland Press Herald'' and ''Maine Sunday Telegram'' in Portland, the ''Kennebec Journal'' in Augusta and the ''Morning Sentinel'' in Waterville. The company also owns ''The Coastal Journal'', a weekly newspaper in Bath. It previously published ''The Community Leader'', a weekly in Falmouth, and ''The Maine Switch'', a lifestyle and entertainment magazine in Portland. MaineToday also owns local Maine websites dedicated to classified advertising, entertainment listings, parenting and travel, as well as a Yellow Pages site and a digital marketing service. Gannett and Blethen MaineToday's newspaper properties were, for most of the 20th century, the core of Guy Gann ...
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Maine
Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and northwest, respectively. The largest state by total area in New England, Maine is the 12th-smallest by area, the 9th-least populous, the 13th-least densely populated, and the most rural of the 50 U.S. states. It is also the northeasternmost among the contiguous United States, the northernmost state east of the Great Lakes, the only state whose name consists of a single syllable, and the only state to border exactly one other U.S. state. Approximately half the area of Maine lies on each side of the 45th parallel north in latitude. The most populous city in Maine is Portland, while its capital is Augusta. Maine has traditionally been known for its jagged, rocky Atlantic Ocean and bayshore coastlines; smoothly contoured mountains; heavily f ...
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Kent, Washington
Kent is a city in King County, Washington, United States. It is part of the Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue metropolitan area and had a population of 136,588 as of the 2020 census, making it the fourth-largest municipality in greater Seattle and the sixth-largest in Washington state. The city is connected to Seattle, Bellevue and Tacoma via State Route 167 and Interstate 5, Sounder commuter rail, and commuter buses. Incorporated in 1890, Kent is the second-oldest incorporated city in King County, after Seattle. It is generally divided into three areas: West Hill (mixed residential and commercial along Interstate 5), Valley (primarily industrial and commercial with some medium-density residential; significant parkland along Green River), and East Hill (primarily residential with retail). History The Kent area was first permanently settled by European Americans in the 1850s along the banks of what was then the White River. The first settler was Samuel Russell, who sailed the Whi ...
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Snoqualmie, Washington
Snoqualmie ( ) is a city next to Snoqualmie Falls in King County, Washington, United States. It is east of Seattle. Snoqualmie city is home to the Northwest Railway Museum. The population was 10,670 at the 2010 census and an estimated 13,622 in 2019. Many of the exterior shots for David Lynch's ''Twin Peaks'' television series and movie (''Fire Walk with Me'') were filmed in Snoqualmie and in the neighboring towns of North Bend and Fall City. Movie actress Ella Raines was born on August 6, 1920, in Snoqualmie Falls, a mill town across the Snoqualmie River that is now part of Snoqualmie. Etymology The name "Snoqualmie" comes from the name of the indigenous people of the same name. It is an Anglicization of the Lushootseed name ''sdukʷalbixʷ'', which means "people of the moon". History The second written record of the exploration of the Snoqualmie Valley comes from the notes of Samuel Hancock, who ventured up-river with the Snoqualmie tribe in 1851 in search of coal. N ...
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