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Shaw Media (United States)

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Founded
  
1851

Shaw Media (United States) wwwkcchroniclecomimagesshawmediafooterpng

Subsidiaries
  
Prairie Advocate, Morris Publishing Company

Shaw Media is an American, Dixon, Illinois-based publisher, of about 80 newspapers and news websites in Illinois and Iowa. The company has since 2000 acquired a number of properties in the Chicago media market, covering a swath of the north, western and southern suburbs.

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Founded in 1851, Shaw Media is the third oldest, continuously owned and operated family newspaper in the nation.

Acquisitions

In 2013, Sun-Times Media sold The Herald-News of Joliet to Shaw Media.

In 2012, Shaw Media acquired Suburban Life Publications, a group of weeklies in Chicago's western suburbs, from GateHouse Media.

Properties

  • Bureau County Republican – Princeton
  • Daily Chronicle – DeKalb
  • The Herald-News – Joliet
  • Kane County Chronicle – Geneva
  • Morris Daily Herald – Morris
  • Northwest Herald – Crystal Lake
  • Suburban Life Media – Group of 20 weekly newspapers headquartered in Downers Grove
  • The Telegraph – Alton
  • The Telegraph – Dixon
  • The Record newspapers (Yorkville): Kendall County Record, Plano Record, Sandwich Record, Ledger-Sentinel. – Yorkville

    • Football magazine

    Shaw Media and the Daily Herald announced in spring 2014 the launch of a new Chicago Football magazine led by veteran football analyst Hub Arkush. The first issue is to be published in April 2014. The magazine will cover the NFL, college football and high school football.

    References

    Shaw Media (United States) Wikipedia
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