Blethen Maine Newspapers
| Private | |
| Industry | Newspapers |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Headquarters | One City Center, Portland, Maine 04101 United States |
| Products | Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel, Maine daily newspapers |
| Website | mainetodaymedia.com |
MaineToday Media is a privately owned publisher of daily and weekly newspapers in the U.S. state of Maine, based in the state's largest city, Portland. It includes the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram, the state's largest newspaper.
MaineToday's daily newspapers include the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram in Portland, the Kennebec Journal in Augusta and the Morning Sentinel in Waterville.
The company also owns The Coastal Journal, a weekly newspaper in Bath. It previously published The Community Leader, a weekly in Falmouth, and The Maine Switch, a lifestyle and entertainment magazine in Portland.
MaineToday also owns local Maine websites dedicated to classified advertising, entertainment listings, parenting and travel, as well as a Yellow Pages site and a digital marketing service.
MaineToday's newspaper properties were, for most of the 20th century, the core of Guy Gannett Communications, a local family-owned business not related to the larger Gannett chain.
The company was founded by its namesake, Guy P. Gannett, in 1921, and managed by a family trust from 1954 until 1998, when the trust left the media business. It sold its television stations to Sinclair Broadcasting.
The Seattle Times Company, an independent publisher of three dailies and several weeklies in Washington state, purchased all of Guy Gannett's newspapers for a price reported at $213 million.
Guy Gannett managers said they sold to the Times because of shared values—both companies were fourth-generation family-owned news organizations: "Of all the companies in the newspaper business, The Seattle Times is one most like our company in the sense of independence, of family ownership, and commitment to the community," said Guy Gannett spokesman Tim O'Meara.
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