Thursday, June 06, 2019

GateHouse merging 50 Massachusetts weeklies into 18


GateHouse Media will merge 50 of its weekly newspapers in Massachusetts into 18, according to an inside memo posted online, masslive.com reported.
The move was set to start the first week of June, the memo said. Dan Kennedy, a professor at Northeastern University and a blogger for Media Nation, posted the memo.
“In many cases, the new title retains the original publication name. For example, The Tewksbury Advocateand the Wilmington Advocatewill become The Tewksbury-Wilmington Advocate covering Tewksbury and Wilmington,” the memo said.
The memo said GateHouse was not decreasing the number of communities it serves or reducing the amount of local news coverage readers receive. The memo provided a list of the papers affected.

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