The Journal Tribune (and its weekend edition, the Journal Tribune Weekender ) was a daily newspaper published in Biddeford, Maine , United States, circulated throughout the greater York County, Maine region. Its first issue was on January 5, 1884, published as a four-page broadsheet .
9-705: The Journal Tribune Weekend 's first issue was on August 8, 1988. It covered Saturdays and Sundays until it was renamed the York County Weekend for its first edition in 2005. The weekend paper was later renamed back to the Journal Tribune Weekend in 2009, and two weeks covered Saturdays only, though returned to Saturday and Sunday coverage. Journal Tribune Sunday 's first issue was for Sunday, June 16, 2013. The Journal Tribune Weekend continued to be published on Saturdays, and continued to cover Sundays. The Sunday edition's last issue
18-599: Is a media owner known for owning a majority of the newspapers in Maine during his tenure as owner of MaineToday Media . His network of owned papers was described by The Maine Monitor as a "near- monopoly ". Brower grew up in Westborough, Massachusetts , to his adopted parents Carmel and Richard. He attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst , and graduated in 1978 with a degree in marketing . As of 2018, he
27-465: Is married to Martha McSweeney Brower ( nÊe Martha McSweeney ). They were married in 1985. Prior to owning newspapers, Brower was an entrepreneur who started several companies, including an auto catalog and direct-mail company that advertised to 600,000 Maine households each week. In 1985, he founded The Free Press . In 2015, Brower bought MaineToday Media from financier S. Donald Sussman . He continued purchasing Maine newspapers; in 2017, he
36-553: The Journal Tribune was closed. The last articles on their website were posted September 26, 2019, and their last paper was published October 12. At the time of their closure, they published an edition for Tuesday through Saturday. Ed Pierce was the executive editor at the time of the paper's demise, though he already had plans to retire. This article about a Maine newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Reade Brower Reade Francis Brower
45-567: The company MaineStay Media in 2022. Four of those newspaper ( The Courier-Gazette, The Republican Journal, The Camden Herald and The Free Press ) were combined in 2024 to form the Midcoast Villager. This Maine -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about an American businessperson born in the 1950s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Rockland, Maine Too Many Requests If you report this error to
54-506: The lost Sunday edition. In January 2017, the newspaper announced they would no longer publish a print Monday edition, opting to enhance their online Monday edition instead. Reade Brower , owner of MaineToday Media , acquired the Journal Tribune as well as Brunswick 's The Times Record on April 1, 2018 from Sample News Group , which then acquired Brower's co-owned newspapers in Rutland and Barre â Montpelier , Vermont . In 2019,
63-583: Was 66 at the time. On July 10, 2023, Bangor Daily News reported that Brower had sold the five daily newspapers and 17 weeklies he owned to the National Trust for Local News, a non-profit. He also owns 6 weeklies that were not included in the 2023 sale: The Ellsworth American ( Ellsworth ), The Mount Desert Islander ( Bar Harbor ), The Courier-Gazette ( Rockland ), The Republican Journal ( Belfast ), The Camden Herald ( Camden ), and The Free Press (Camden). Those six papers had united under
72-601: Was on October 28, 2018, after which it became online-only. The weekend edition's name changed following this, with the first November issue being published as the Journal Tribune Weekender . This sparked another period of Saturday-only coverage by the Weekender , though issues in December returned to full-weekend coverage. The name change represented the new, longer weekend edition intended to make up for
81-526: Was the owner of 24 papers in Maine, including four of the state's seven daily newspapers . In 2018, he had acquired six of the seven daily papers in the state (the exclusion being the Bangor Daily News ). On March 30, 2023, he announced he was looking to sell or take on investors to Masthead Maine, the successor to MaineToday. On March 31, Bangor Daily News reported that he owned five dailies and 25 weeklies, and six specialty publications. He
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