Seacoast Media Group is a unit of

Local Media Group Local Media Group, Inc., formerly Dow Jones Local Media Group and Ottaway Newspapers Inc., owned newspapers, Web sites and niche publications in California, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon and Pennsylvania. It was headquart ...

. Seacoast publishes five weekly newspapers and one daily, '' The Portsmouth Herald'', along the coasts of New Hampshire and York County, Maine, United States. The group publisher is John Tabor; its executive editor is Howard Altschiller. On September 4, 2013,

News Corp News Corporation, stylized as News Corp, is an American mass media and publishing company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The second incarnation of the News Corporation (1980–2013), original News Corporation, it was formed ...

announced that it would sell the Dow Jones Local Media Group to Newcastle Investment Corp.—an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group, for $87 million. The newspapers will be operated by GateHouse Media, a newspaper group owned by Fortress. News Corp. CEO and former ''Wall Street Journal'' editor Robert James Thomson indicated that the newspapers were "not strategically consistent with the emerging portfolio" of the company. GateHouse in turn filed prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy on September 27, 2013, to restructure its debt obligations in order to accommodate the acquisition.

Seacoast's newspapers

The information in these profiles is based on th
SMG 2007 Retail Rate Card
Circulation figures refer to the company's reports of average press runs for July-September 2006.

''The Portsmouth Herald''

''The Exeter News-Letter''

Delivered by carrier to 5,500 subscribers each Friday morning in Brentwood, East Kingston,

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Exeter Exeter () is a city in Devon, South West England. It is situated on the River Exe, approximately northeast of Plymouth and southwest of Bristol. In Roman Britain, Exeter was established as the base of Legio II Augusta under the personal comm ...

Kensington Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in the West End of London, West of Central London. The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up b ...

, Newfields, Newmarket, South Hampton and

Stratham, New Hampshire Stratham is a New England town, town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The town had a population of 7,669 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is bounded on the west by the Squamscott ...

. On Sundays, subscribers to ''The News-Letter'' receive the '' Herald Sunday''.

''The Hampton Union''

Delivered by carrier to 4,810 subscribers each Friday and Tuesday morning in Hampton,

Hampton Falls Hampton Falls (formerly the "Third Parish and Hampton Falls") is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 2,403 at the 2020 census. History The land of Hampton Falls was first settled by Europeans in 1638, ...

, North Hampton and Seabrook, New Hampshire. On Sundays, subscribers to ''The Union'' receive the '' Herald Sunday''.

''York County Coast Star''

Mailed each Thursday to 9,685 subscribers in

Arundel Arundel ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the Arun District of the South Downs, West Sussex, England. The much-conserved town has a medieval castle and Roman Catholic cathedral. Arundel has a museum and comes second behind much large ...

Kennebunk Kennebunk is a town in York County, Maine, United States. The population was 11,536 at the 2020 census (The population does not include Kennebunkport, a separate town). Kennebunk is home to several beaches, the Rachel Carson National Wildlife R ...

, Kennebunkport, Ogunquit and Wells, Maine.

''The York Weekly''

Mailed each Wednesday to 4,315 subscribers in York, Maine.

''The New Hampshire''

Prints approximately 3,000 copies each week for the University of New Hampshire and Durham communities, as well as surrounding towns.

References

SMG 2007 Retail Rate Card
accessed January 10, 2007. {{New Media Investment Group Newspapers published in Maine Newspapers published in New Hampshire York County, Maine Companies based in Rockingham County, New Hampshire