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Gatehouse also recently purchased the Akron Beacon Journal, so along with their other Northeast Ohio papers (Canton, Alliance, Wooster, Kent-Ravenna and the associated weeklies) they have a very strong foothold in Ohio when combined with the Dispatch. They could easily pool all of their resources to cover the Mahoning Valley since they upped their sharing of content. Most likely, the T-C will expand their distribution to Mahoning County and become a full-market paper, maybe by acquiring the rights to the Vindicator name. They may have been able to sell the Vindicator if they kept up with the times a little more. It was my understanding that the presses were only modernized less than a decade ago, while other newspapers had made the same move 10 or so years prior. Now with WFMJ, the target on their back just grew exponentially, since they will no longer have a daily newspaper tied to them. I'll bet the Wolfe Family said the same thing when they sold off the Dispatch, only to sell their TV stations to Tegna a few years later...

I am shocked Ogden didn't step in to offer to buy or Gatehouse. Ogden already owns Tribune Chronicle and also all 3 newspapers in Columbiana County. Gatehouse would have been tited with Canton Repository, Alliance Review and The Dispatch. Ogden also owns 7 springs, and the pirates. Overall this is truly a sad for the Youngstown and Mahoning Valley to loose the Vindy.

Do I believe them? No. Expect a bunch of offers.

Two Words...TRIBUNE CHRONICLE! (even if they're technically a Trumbull County newspaper)

For those who are in the DC metro area (like myself). Barbara Harrison has left WRC after 38 years = Retirement of some sorts. However, she will do specials with WRC. One of the best DC anchors alongside Pat Lawson-Muse. Article Source: Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/washington-news4-nbc-barbara-harrison-news-anchor-steps-down-retires-career-beautiful-1446460

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It's the end of the line for The Vindicator, the newspaper of Youngstown, Ohio, after 150 years—but don't expect changes at co-owned WFMJ as a result: