The Record is a daily newspaper based in Stockton, California , serving San Joaquin and Calaveras Counties . It is owned by Gannett .
7-746: The Record was founded in 1895 by Irving Martin as the Evening Record. It is a newspaper that covers stories in the Stockton, San Joaquin and the Mother Lode areas; as well as surrounding areas and a national level as well. In 1969, Speidel Newspapers, Inc. bought The Record and the newspaper introduced its Sunday edition. In March 1977, Gannett Company bought Speidel Newspapers, including The Record . In 1994, Omaha World-Herald Company bought The Record. On May 5, 2003, Ottaway Community Newspapers bought The Record for $ 144 Million. Ottaway
14-803: The Fort Collins Express-Courier which would become the Fort Collins Coloradoan . It added the Poughkeepsie Evening Star and Enterprise and the Poughkeepsie Morning Eagle-News (predecessors of the Poughkeepsie New Yorker ) in 1941. The Visalia Times-Delta became the company's 7th newspaper in 1948. Speidel retired from his namesake company in 1956. He died four years later in 1960. At
21-458: The emerging portfolio" of the company. GateHouse in turn filed prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy on September 27, 2013, to restructure its debt obligations in order to accommodate the acquisition. In March 2024, the newspaper announced it will switch from carrier to postal delivery. This article about a California newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Speidel Newspapers, Inc. Speidel Newspapers, Inc.
28-520: The market. On September 4, 2013, News Corp announced that it would sell the Dow Jones Local Media Group to Newcastle Investment Corp.—an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group , for $ 87 million. The newspapers will be operated by GateHouse Media , a newspaper group owned by Fortress. News Corp. CEO and former Wall Street Journal editor Robert James Thomson indicated that the newspapers were "not strategically consistent with
35-688: The time, the group included the Poughkeepsie New Yorker , Chillicothe Gazette , the Evening Gazette and Evening State Journal , Fort Collins Coloradoan , the Sailinas Daily Californian , and the Visalia Times-Delta . Speidel was the target of a potential takeover attempt by Thomson Newspapers in 1974 which it took steps to block. When it merged with Gannett in 1976, 13 newspapers were part of
42-477: Was an American newspaper publisher with properties in the west and midwestern United States. It announced a merger with Gannet in 1976 that grew the combined company to 73 newspapers. The company was founded as Merritt Speidel and associates by Merritt C. Speidel in 1921 with the help of John Ben Snow. The company started with the Iowa City Press-Citizen . In 1936, the company bought
49-588: Was the Local Media Group for Dow Jones and Co. Subsequently, the corporate group changed its name to Dow Jones Local Media Group. In 2006, The Record began expanding its presence on the Internet as part of a strong digital media initiative. In 2007, The Record changed its brand to San Joaquin Media Group in reflection to the diversification of the information products and services offered in
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