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overview
holdings
landmarks
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landmarks
This chronology is indicative only.
Context is provided by the broader communications and
media timeline.
beginnings
1997 CNHI founded by Ralph Martin with funding from Retirement
Systems of Alabama
1997 buys Effingham Daily News from MediaGeneral
1997 buys Niagara Gazette and sister papers from
Gannett for US$22m
1998 buys 45 newspapers (inc 28 dailies) from Hollinger
for US$275m
1998 swaps Chillicothe Gazette for Thomson's
Daily Citizen-News of Dalton
1998 Donrey Media Group sells
28 of its 48 newspapers to CNHI
1998 CNHI sells Effingham Daily News to Hollinger
1998 buys Poteau News & Sun, The Coffeyville
Journal and Pratt Tribune
1999 buys New Castle News
1999 sells Harrison Daily Times, Boone County
Headlight and Newton County Times
1999 Ralph Martin leaves CNHI
2000 Hollinger sells Effingham Daily News back
to CNHI
2000 buys 17 daily newspapers in Indiana, South Georgia,
West Virginia and Maryland from Thomson
for US$455m
2001 sells Corry Journal and Warren County
Guide
2002
CNHI buys Globe, Herald, Daily Independent
and The Free Press from Dow
Jones for US$182m
2003 sells Portsmouth Daily Times, Point Pleasant
Register, The Robesonian, Sampson Independent,
Harlan Daily Enterprise, Middlesboro Daily
News, Gallipolis Daily Tribune, Clayton
News, Pomeroy Daily Sentinel, Tarboro
Daily Southerner and McDonough
Daily Herald to Brown Publishing
2003 buys Fox stations WFXG in Augusta and WXTX in Columbus
from Fisher Communications for US$40m
2006 buys six Ottaway newspapers from Dow Jones for US$282m
(Danbury News-Times, Oneonta Daily Star,
Plattsburgh Press-Republican, Santa Cruz Sentinel,
Sunbury Daily Item and Traverse City Record-Eagle)
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