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This
page considers the US Stephens Media Group.
It covers -
introduction
Las Vegas-based Stephens Media Group publishes the
Las Vegas Review-Journal and some 30 other newspapers
in eight US states, two news bureaus and internet portals
such as LasVegas.com and CasinoGaming.com. Prior to 2002
it was known as Donrey Media Group.
history
Donrey was founded by Donald Reynolds (1905-1993)
in 1940.
At its peak in the 1980s it encompassed 52 daily newspapers
and five cable companies, television and radio stations
and outdoor advertising operations.
It was acquired by Arkansas-based investment firm Stephens
Group on Reynolds' death, being rebadged as Stephens Media
Group in 2002.
In 1998 Donrey sold 28 newspapers to Community Newspaper
Holdings Inc (CNHI). They included
the Washington Times-Herald in Indiana; Clinton Herald
and Oskaloosa Herald in Iowa; Glasgow Daily Times in Kentucky;
Picayune Item, The Poplarville Democrat in Mississippi;
Moberly Monitor-Index in Missouri; Alamogordo Daily News
in New Mexico; and Altus Times, Blackwell Journal-Tribune,
Chickasha Daily Express, Claremore Daily Progress, Durant
Daily Democrat, Frederick Leader, Guymon Daily Herald,
Henryetta Daily Free-Lance, Norman Transcript, Okmulgee
Daily Times, Pauls Valley Daily Democrat in Oklahoma
In 2006, as part of the takeover of Knight
Ridder, McClatchy announced
that would sell The San Jose Mercury News and
The Contra Costa Times to a partnership of MediaNews
(54%), Gannett (19%) and Stephens
Group (26%)
holdings
As at late 2005 Stephens Media Group holdings were -
Book publishing
Internet
- Stephens
Media Interactive
- The
Gaming Wire (newswire service on US gaming industry)
Newspapers
Arkansas
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Booneville Democrat (Booneville)
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Charleston Express (Charleston)
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Fayetteville Free Weekly (Fayetteville)
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Greenwood Democrat (Greenwood)
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Morning News of Northwest Arkansas (Springdale)
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Paris Express (Paris)
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Pine Bluff Commercial (Pine Bluff)
- The Market Place
- The White Hall Progress
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The Maumelle Monitor
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Press Argus Courier (Van Buren)
- Alma Journal
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The Times (North Little Rock)
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Southwest Times Record (Fort Smith)
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Van Buren County Democrat (Clinton)
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Washington County Newspapers
- The Farmington Post
- The Lincoln Leader
- The Prairie Grove Enterprise
Hawaii
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Hawaii Tribune-Herald (Hilo)
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North Hawaii News (Waimea)
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West Hawaii Today (Kailua-Kona)
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Westside Weekly
Nevada
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Ely Daily Times (Ely)
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Las Vegas Review-Journal
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View Neighborhood Newspapers
- El Tiempo Libre
- Las Vegas CityLife
- Pahrump Valley Times
- New Homes Guide
- Luxury Las Vegas
- Southern Nevada Home and Garden
- View Plus
- Neighborhood Shopper
- Jobs Today Weekly
North
Carolina
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Courier-Tribune (Asheboro)
Oklahoma
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Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise
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Pawhuska Journal-Capital
Tennessee
Texas
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Herald Democrat (Sherman)
Washington
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Daily World (Aberdeen)
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East County News
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The Montesano Vidette
Studies
There are no major studies of Stephens, Reynolds or Donrey.
landmarks
1940 Reynolds founds Donrey with purchase of Okmulgee
Daily Times in Oklahoma and Southwest Times
Record in Fort Smith
1949 buys controlling interest in Nevada Review-Journal
from Garside family
1966 buys Guymon Daily Herald
1968 buys Grays Harbor Daily World (est 1889)
1968 buys Booneville Democrat
1973 buys Sweetwater Reporter
1977 buys Glasgow Daily Times
1978 buys Borger News-Herald
1980 buys Picayune Item
1981 buys Redlands Daily Facts
1981 buys Durant Democrat
1982 buys Kent News Journal
1983 buys Columbia Daily Herald
1984 sells Yuma Sun to Cox
1984 buys Ukiah Daily Journal
1985 buys Norman Transcript
1993 Stephens buys Donrey Media Group
1995 buys Northwest Arkansas Times (est as Fayetteville
Democrat in 1860) from Thomson
for US$22m, sale later overturned
1997 Donrey buys Greenwood Democrat
1998 sells 28 of its 48 newspapers to CNHI
1999 forms California Newspaper Partnership with Gannett
and MediaNews
1999 sells Inland Valley Daily Bulletin and Redlands
Daily Facts to MediaNews
1999 Clear buys Donrey Outdoor
2002 Donrey becomes Stephens Media Group
2003 buys Spanish language weekly La Prensa Del Noroeste
de Arkansas (est 1998) from founder Edward Vega
2005 Stephens buys weekly Times of North Little
Rock and Maumelle Monitor from KDC Communications
2006 McClatchy announces it
will sell The San Jose Mercury News and The
Contra Costa Times to partnership of MediaNews,
Gannett and Stephens Group
2006 Stephens buys Magie Enterprises newspapers in Jacksonville,
Cabot, Sherwood, Carlisle and Lonoke (weekly Cabot Star-Herald,
Carlisle Independent, Lonoke Democrat, Sherwood Voice
and the semi-weekly Jacksonville Patriot)
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