Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Australia MMG Owns Mesabi Daily News.

"June 11 2007 (Reuters) - MCG Capital Corp. said it agreed to sell Superior Publishing Corp., to American Consolidated Media LLC, a newspaper operating company of Australia's Macquarie Media Group (MMG.AX: Quote, Profile, Research), for about $65 million. http://www.reuters.com/article/mergersNews/idUSWNAS369820070611"

NOTE: ACM is a wholly-owned subsidiary of MMG.


"Along with the Mesabi Daily News, the Daily Tribune in Hibbing and the Grand Rapids Herald Review, Superior Publishing owns the Chisholm Tribune-Press, the Cook County News-Herald in Grand Marais and the Pilot-Independent in Walker, as well as Wisconsin�s Ashland Daily Press, the County Journal in Bayfield, the Sawyer County Record in Hayward, the Spooner Advocate, the Park Falls Herald, the Bee in Phillips and the Gladwin County Record and Clarion in Michigan. The company also has several shoppers and associated publications. http://www.northlandconnection.com/lake/news.php?NWArticleID=1344"

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the heads up on the Mesabidailynews paper, somebody at least is doing the homework on the origins of things. Enjoying website.

Anonymous said...

Do we have to call Australia now to get answers having to do with the MDN? Lord knows we must. I have called MDN twice and emailed once trying to get an answer having to do with an obituary from last Dec. Still haven't gotten an answer. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay the paper to see one small obituary that is over 2 weeks old, so it is considered in the archives. Wonder how long the outhouse will stay on the front page. I also might add that it was interesting to see the comments in the onions and orchids about the new MDN website. There were 7 comments that dissappeared right after they were posted.

Anonymous said...

"There were 7 comments that dissappeared right after they were posted."

Freedom of Speech only applies to foreign owned media conglomerates. Everybody else is peons and pawns in the game.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for writing this.