TAFT, Calif.--Jul. 4--The 87-year-old Daily Midway Driller was sold this week as part of a larger package to Pulitzer Publishing Co. for $214.1 million.
When Pulitzer, based in St. Louis, and Scripps League Newspapers Inc. first announced the sale May 6, the Driller and two other Scripps League dailies were withheld from the sale.
But Pulitzer made it clear it also wanted those papers. Officials even made a trip to Taft to look the operation over, said editor and assistant publisher, Dave Hook. The paper had been owned by Scripps League since the 1970s. Before that, it was independently owned.
According to a July 2 article in the Driller, specific personnel and operational changes have not been announced.
Pulitzer Publishing's policy when buying new papers has been to retain local management and staff, leaving editorial direction and community focus up to individual publishers.
Pulitzer's newspaper business includes the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson. The company, with revenue last year of about $472.3 million, also operates nine network-affiliated television stations.
Scripps League owned 16 papers in the West and Midwest. In California, it owned the Hanford Sentinel, the Record-Gazette in Banning, the Napa Valley Register and the Santa Maria Times.
Scripps League, based in Herndon, Va., isn't affiliated with publicly owned E.W. Scripps Co.
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