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Articles from the February 16, 2012 edition


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  • New owners believe community newspapers future of industry

    CMI Staff|Feb 16, 2012

    Garry Ellis, left, and Gary Stevenson, new owners of the Clovis News Journal, Portales News-Tribune and the Quay County Sun, met with newspaper employees on Thursday. The two business partners will assume ownership of all three newspapers today and say they forsee very minor changes to the papers' operations. New owners Garry Ellis and Gary Stevenson say acquisition of the Clovis News Journal, Portales News-Tribune and Quay County Sun marks the end of a 2 1/2-year search "for just the right (media) property." The two are partners in Clovis...

  • New owners believe community newspapers future of industry

    Feb 16, 2012

    CMI Staff New owners Garry Ellis and Gary Stevenson say acquisition of the Clovis News Journal, Portales News-Tribune and Quay County Sun marks the end of a 2 1/2-year search “for just the right (media) property.” The two are partners in Clovis Media Inc., which assumed ownership today of the three papers from Freedom Communications, the Irvine, Calif., company that has owned Clovis since 1935 and Portales and Tucumcari since 1997. Both men said a diverse economy and the progressive spirit they encountered in eastern New Mexico is part of wha...