News Corp. (NWS -0.30%) (NWSA -0.23%) announced yesterday that it's sold the Dow Jones Local Media Group to an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group (NYSE: FIG). The sale includes 33 publications -- 8 daily and 15 weekly newspapers.
The papers included in the sale are:
- Times Herald-Record (Middletown, N.Y.)
- Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, Mass.)
- The Record (Stockton, Calif.)
- The Standard-Times (New Bedford, Mass.)
- The Pocono Record (Stroudsburg, Pa.)
- The Herald (Portsmouth, N.H.)
- The Mail Tribune (Medford, Ore.)
- The Daily Tidings (Ashland, Ore.)
-- Material from The Associated Press was used in this report.