Better Newspapers (Mascoutah, Illinois) has bought five weekly papers in Illinois, WLDS/WEAI Radio reports. Greg Hoskins, publisher of Better Newspapers, has bought the Greene Prairie Press, the Scott County Times, the Pike Press, the Calhoun News-Herald and the Jersey County Journal from Campbell Publishing.
Better Newspapers is family owned. The company owns 31 other publications in Illinois and Missouri.
The company constructed a regional press plant in Altamont, Illinois, in 2012. The facility prints Better Newspapers publications along with other papers, says Herald Publications.
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