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Mid South Management Company

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Industry
  
Media

Website
  
midsouthmanagement.com

Type of business
  
Family-owned

Products
  
Newspapers

Founded
  
1948

Key people
  
Phyllis B. DeLapp, chairman; Andrew M. Babb, president

Headquarters
  
Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States

Mid-South Management Company Inc. owns or operates newspapers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia. The family-owned company, based in Spartanburg, South Carolina, was started in 1948 by Phil Buchheit, who was then publisher and operator of the Spartanburg Herald-Journal.

Contents

Daily newspapers

  • The LaGrange Daily News, LaGrange, Georgia
  • The Mount Airy News, Mount Airy, North Carolina
  • The Laurinburg Exchange, Laurinburg, North Carolina
  • The Union Daily Times, Union, South Carolina

    • Non-dailies

  • The Newberry Observer, Newberry, South Carolina
  • The Pickens Sentinel, Pickens, South Carolina
  • Easley Progress, Easley, South Carolina
  • The Stokes News, Stokes County, North Carolina
  • The Jefferson Post, West Jefferson, North Carolina
  • Rural Hall Weekly Independent, Rural Hall, North Carolina
  • The Tribune, Elkin, North Carolina
  • The Yadkin Ripple, Yadkinville, North Carolina
  • The Pilot, Pilot Mountain, North Carolina
  • The Carroll News, Carroll County, Virginia
  • The Thomaston Times, Thomaston, Georgia

    • Recent changes

    In 2005, Mid-South sold the Williamson Daily News, Williamson, West Virginia, and two affiliated weeklies to Heartland Publications.

    In 2006, The Phenix Citizen, Phenix City, Alabama, was sold to Family Media Inc.

    In June 2007, the remainder of the assets were sold to Heartland Publications, LLC, a Connecticut based publisher.

    References

    Mid-South Management Company Wikipedia
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