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Story reports Landmark Communications selling itself

Company owns Taylor, Casey, Larue, Marion, and E-town papers, including Central Kentucky News Journal sold at newsstands in Columbia, KY. One-time Adair Countian, Larry Coffey, headed the company. Firm grew out of Newspapers, Inc., which briefly ran the Adair County News

A story in this morning's, Thursday, January 3, 2008, Courier-Journal announces the sale of Landmark Communications, which operates the Central Kentucky News Journal in Campbellsville, KY and the Casey County News in Liberty in the Greater Adair County area. The story does not mention whether these two papers by name, but indicated that all the company would be sold, possibly in smaller pieces.



Click Here to read the story, "Newspaper company with area ties to be sold." The story should also be in print editions of the Courier-Journal, on sale in Columbia, KY, at a premium price, at local newsstands.

Landmark Communications is a Norfolk, VA, communications empire. The Kentucky component of the company operates from Shelbyville, KY. It grew out of a late 1969 company, Newspapers, Inc., founded by Bill Matthews and others. The company had its greatest growth in Kentucky under the leadership of Larry Coffey, a one-time Adair County resident.

For a one year period, in 1969-1970, the company owned the Adair County News in Columbia, KY, which they bought from Bill Downs and Louis DeRosett.



This story was posted on 2008-01-03 05:07:35
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