By: Press Release | Cribb, Green & Associates
10/13 Communications, LLC has acquired the
Marana News, Foothills News, Desert Times, and related websites from Tucson West Publishing, Inc., a division of News Media Corporation. Terms of the transaction were not announced.
Cribb, Greene & Associates, a newspaper merger and acquisition firm, represented Tucson West in the transaction.
10/13 announced that it will increase the frequency of the Marana News to become a weekly newspaper, publishing on the same cycle as its Explorer newspaper. The Foothills News and Desert Times are monthly publications. The group has a distribution of 28,000.
"We are excited to add these publications to our Arizona Local Media group," said Randy Miller, president of 10/13 Communications. "This addition greatly expands our reach in the Tucson market where we already have the
Explorer newspaper that dominates the northwest area with 45,000 distribution and a readership in print and online of well over 100,000.
10/13 Communications publications boast hyper-local reporting, and an innovative distribution model. Its Arizona Local Media Group includes the Pulitzer Prize-winning
East Valley Tribune, the
Daily News-Sun, Glendale Today, Peoria Today, Surprise Today, Ahwatukee Foothills News, Clipper Marketplace and
U and Your Home in Phoenix, together with the Arizona Interactive Media Group, and the
Explorer in suburban Tucson. 10/13 Communications also publishes forty newspapers in Texas through Star Local Media in Dallas and its Houston Community Newspapers group.
Cribb, Greene & Associates is a ninety-one year old newspaper brokerage, appraisal, and consulting firm with offices in Charlottesville, Virginia and Helena, Montana.
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