Ohio Community Media was an American privately owned publisher of
daily and
weekly newspapers, primarily in the state of
Ohio. It was headquartered in the
Dayton suburb of
Miamisburg, Ohio, and was owned by
Philadelphia-based Versa Capital Management.
History
Most of the company's holdings comprise the Ohio core of
Brown Publishing Company
Brown Publishing Company was a privately owned Cincinnati, Ohio, newspaper business started by Congressman Clarence J. Brown in Blanchester, Ohio in 1920. It ended 90 years of operations in August/September 2010 with its bankruptcy and sale of ass ...
, a family-owned publisher based in
Cincinnati that declared bankruptcy in April 2010. In September of that year, Brown's 14 Ohio dailies and about 50 weekly publications were transferred to Ohio Community Media, a new entity owned by Brown's creditors, in a transaction valued at $21.75 million.
Over the next few months, the new company sold a "mini-empire" of business newsweeklies that Brown had assembled starting in 2007, unloading titles in such far-flung cities as
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston metropolitan area. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint o ...
;
Cheyenne, Wyoming;
Fort Worth, Texas; and
Naperville, Illinois.
Versa completed its purchase of Ohio Community Media for an undisclosed price in May 2011. By this point, the chain consisted of 14 daily newspapers and about 30 weeklies, all in Ohio.
In February 2012, Versa purchased Impressions Media, owner of ''
Times Leader'' in
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and in May of that year it bought four Midwestern dailies formerly owned by
Freedom Communications. That purchase included ''
The Lima News'' in Ohio, as well as dailies in
Illinois and
Missouri.
The four dailies acquired from Freedom were integrated into Ohio Community Media.
In 2012 Versa merged Ohio Community Media, the former Freedom papers,
Impressions Media
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, and
Heartland Publications into a new company,
Civitas Media.
Holdings
Ohio Community Media published 18 daily newspapers and about 30 weeklies (paid and free), in addition to several free weekly
shopper publications.
Illinois
* '' Journal-Courier'' of Jacksonville
* '' The Telegraph'' of Alton
Missouri
* '' Sedalia Democrat'' of Sedalia
* ''Whiteman Warrior'' (weekly) of Whiteman Air Force Base
Ohio
Central Ohio (Columbus area)
* '' The Delaware Gazette'' of Delaware
* ''The Madison Press
''The Madison Press'' was an American daily newspaper that was published Mondays through Saturdays in London, Ohio. It was owned by AIM Media Midwest. After converting to digital only, it ceased publication in 2019.
History
The newspaper called ...
'' of London
* '' Record Herald'' of Washington Court House
Washington Court House (often abbreviated as Washington C.H.) is a city in Union Township, Fayette County, Ohio. It is the county seat of Fayette County and is located between Cincinnati and Columbus. The population grew almost 1.5% from 2010 to ...
* '' Urbana Daily Citizen'' of Urbana __NOTOC__
Urbana can refer to:
Places Italy
*Urbana, Italy
United States
*Urbana, Illinois
**Urbana (conference), a Christian conference formerly held in Urbana, Illinois
*Urbana, Indiana
* Urbana, Iowa
*Urbana, Kansas
* Urbana, Maryland
*Urbana, ...
* Weekly newspapers:
** ''Mechanicsburg Telegram'' of Mechanicsburg
** ''Plain City Advocate'' of Plain City
** ''Sunbury News'' of Sunbury
** ''The Tribune'' of Mount Sterling
** ''Indian Lake Current'' of Russells Point and Lakeview.
** ''River Current'' of Degraff, Quincy and West Liberty.
Mid-Ohio (Mansfield area)
* '' Galion Inquirer'' of Galion
* Weekly newspapers:
** ''Bellville Star'' of Bellville
** ''Knox County Citizen'' of Fredericktown
** ''Morrow County Sentinel'' of Mount Gilead
Northwest Ohio
* ''The Bellevue Gazette
''The Bellevue Gazette'' was an American bi-weekly newspaper published Wednesdays and Saturdays in Bellevue, Ohio from 1851 to 2016. It was owned by Civitas Media, a subsidiary of Versa Capital Management.
History
First appearing as a short-l ...
'' of Bellevue
* Lake Erie Division weeklies:
** ''Amherst News-Times'' of Amherst Amherst may refer to:
People
* Amherst (surname), including a list of people with the name
* Earl Amherst of Arracan in the East Indies, a title in the British Peerage; formerly ''Baron Amherst''
* Baron Amherst of Hackney of the City of London, ...
** ''The Clyde Enterprise'' of Clyde
** ''Fulton County Expositor'' of Wauseon
** ''Oberlin News Tribune'' of Oberlin Oberlin may refer to:
; Places in the United States
* Oberlin Township, Decatur County, Kansas
** Oberlin, Kansas, a city in the township
* Oberlin, Louisiana, a town
* Oberlin, Ohio, a city
* Oberlin, Licking County, Ohio, a ghost town
* Oberlin, ...
** ''The Peninsula News'' of Marblehead
** ''Swanton Enterprise'' of Swanton
** ''The Wellington Enterprise'' of Wellington
* '' The Lima News'' of Lima
** ''Putnam Voice'' (weekly) of Ottawa
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Southern Ohio
* '' The Times-Gazette'' of Hillsboro
* Weekly newspapers:
** ''The News-Democrat'' of Georgetown
** ''People's Defender'' of West Union
** ''The Ripley Bee'' of Ripley
Ripley may refer to:
People and characters
* Ripley (name)
* ''Ripley'', the test mannequin aboard the first International Space Station space station Dragon 2 space test flight Crew Dragon Demo-1
* Ellen Ripley, a fictional character from the Ali ...
Western Ohio (Dayton area)
* '' The Daily Advocate'' of Greenville
* ''Fairborn Daily Herald
The ''Fairborn Daily Herald'' is an American daily newspaper serving the city of Fairborn, Ohio, and adjoining communities such as Enon, Yellow Springs and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Most of its circulation is in Greene County.
It publis ...
'' of Fairborn
Fairborn is a city in Greene County, Ohio, United States. The population was 34,620 at the 2020 census. Fairborn is a suburb of Dayton, and part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area.
It is the only city in the world named Fairborn, a port ...
* ''News Journal
''The News Journal'' is the main newspaper for Wilmington, Delaware, and the surrounding area. It is headquartered in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, near New Castle, and is owned by Gannett.
History
The ancestry of the News Jo ...
'' of Wilmington
* ''Piqua Daily Call
The ''Piqua Daily Call'' was an American daily newspaper that was consolidated with the ''Troy Daily News'' in April 2019 to form '' Miami Valley Today'', which is published Tuesday through Friday in Troy, Ohio. Its Sunday edition is called the ''M ...
'' of Piqua
* '' Sidney Daily News'' of Sidney
Sidney may refer to:
People
* Sidney (surname), English surname
* Sidney (given name), including a list of people with the given name
* Sidney (footballer, born 1972), full name Sidney da Silva Souza, Brazilian football defensive midfielder
* ...
* '' Troy Daily News'' of Troy
* ''Xenia Daily Gazette
The ''Xenia Daily Gazette'' is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American daily newspaper published daily except Sunday in Xenia, Ohio. It is owned by AIM Media based in McAllen, Texas.
It covers the city of Xenia and several nearby communities in Gree ...
'' of Xenia
* Times Community Newspapers weeklies:
** ''Beavercreek News-Current'' of Beavercreek
** ''Centerville-Washington Township Times'' of Centerville
** ''Englewood Independent'' of Englewood
** ''Enon Messenger'' of Enon
Enon may refer to:
Places United States
*Enon, Kentucky
*Enon, Moniteau County, Missouri
* Enon, St. Charles County, Missouri
*Enon, North Carolina
*Enon, Ohio
*Enon Valley, Pennsylvania
*Enon, Virginia
*Enon, West Virginia
Elsewhere
* Ænon, w ...
** ''Huber Heights Courier'' of Huber Heights
Huber Heights is a suburb of Dayton in Montgomery and Miami counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. Its origins trace back to the now-defunct Wayne Township, which was settled in the early-mid 1800s. Wayne Township was incorporated as the City of Hube ...
** '' Kettering-Oakwood Times'' of Kettering
** ''New Carlisle Sun'' of New Carlisle
** ''Springboro Sun'' of Springboro
** ''Sugarcreek Bellbrook Times'' of Bellbrook
Bellbrook is a city in Greene County, Ohio, United States. The population was 7,317 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area. It sits about 20.5 miles, ( 17km) south east from central Dayton.
History
Bellbroo ...
** ''Vandalia Drummer News'' of Vandalia
** ''Weekly Record Herald'' of Tipp City
Tipp City is a city in Miami County, Ohio, Miami County, Ohio, United States just outside Dayton. The population was 9,689 at the United States Census 2010, 2010 census. Formerly known as Tippecanoe, and then Tippecanoe City. Later, it was renamed ...
* Other weekly newspapers:
** ''Miami County Advocate'' of Piqua
** ''Register-Herald'' of Eaton
Eaton may refer to:
Buildings Canada
* Eaton Centre, the name of various shopping malls in Canada due to having been anchored by an Eaton's store
* Eaton's / John Maryon Tower, a cancelled skyscraper in Toronto
* Eaton Hall (King City), a confere ...
** ''Star Republican'' of Wilmington
References
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External links
Ohio Community Media
Versa Capital Management
Newspaper companies of the United States