The ''Broomfield Enterprise'' is the city
newspaper
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...
for
Broomfield, Colorado
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, United States, and is published once a week on Sundays. It is published by
Prairie Mountain Publishing
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It acquired Lehman Communications ...
, which is owned by
MediaNews Group
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.
The ''Enterprise'' was founded in 1975. The founding editor was Roseann Doran. Mr. and Mrs Albert Martin sold the paper in 1979 to the Minneapolis Star & Tribune Co. The circulation at the time was 12,000.
In 1991, Cowles Media Co. of Minneapolis sold the weekly newspapers it owned in the Denver suburbs, known as the Sentinel chain, in five pieces, in a transaction described as "intricate." The papers had been struggling financially, and the sale price was "greatly reduced" from what Cowles had initially sought. The
Boulder Publishing Company, which published ''
The Daily Camera
The ''Daily Camera'' is a newspaper in Boulder, Colorado, United States. It is owned by Prairie Mountain Publishing, a division of Digital First Media.
History
Frederick P. Johnson and Bert Bell founded the weekly ''Boulder Camera'' in 1890, a ...
'', purchased the ''Enterprise''.
The 1994 resignation of Broomfield mayor Bob Schulze was attributed to the ''Enterprise's'' reporting on his personal use of a city-issued cell phone, which had resulted in $5,707 of charges.
As of 1995 it was owned by
Boulder Publishing
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, along with ''
The Daily Camera
The ''Daily Camera'' is a newspaper in Boulder, Colorado, United States. It is owned by Prairie Mountain Publishing, a division of Digital First Media.
History
Frederick P. Johnson and Bert Bell founded the weekly ''Boulder Camera'' in 1890, a ...
''. It was delivered free to residents, and was described as having strong coverage of government, business, schools, and sports. In 1997 it was listed as one of the holdings of
Knight Ridder
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. That year
E. W. Scripps
Edward Willis Scripps (June 18, 1854 – March 12, 1926), was an American newspaper publisher and, together with his sister Ellen Browning Scripps, founder of The E. W. Scripps Company, a diversified media conglomerate, and United Press ne ...
acquired the parent company.
The ''Enterprise's'' local news coverage has been picked up and credited by other newspapers.
References
Newspapers published in Colorado
Broomfield County, Colorado
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