Mid-South Management Company

Mid-South Management Company
Mid-South Management Inc.
Type Family-owned
Industry Media
Founded 1948
Headquarters Spartanburg, South Carolina
Key people Phyllis B. DeLapp, chairman; Andrew M. Babb, president
Products Newspapers
Website midsouthmanagement.com

Mid-South Management Company Inc. [1] 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

Non-dailies

Recent changes

In 2005, Mid-South sold the Williamson Daily News, Williamson, West Virginia, and two affiliated weeklies to Heartland Publications.[2]

In 2006, The Phenix Citizen, Phenix City, Alabama, was sold to Family Media Inc.[3]

In June 2007, the remainder of the assets were sold to Heartland Publications, LLC, a Connecticut based publisher.[4]

References

  1. ^ Mid-South Management official website
  2. ^ Association of Free Community Papers newsletter, May 1, 2005
  3. ^ "FMI Buys Phenix City, Ala. Weekly," Editor & Publisher, August 7, 2006
  4. ^ Heartland Publications Acquisitions