Landmark Communications
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| Private | |
| Genre | Media |
| Founded | 1905 |
| Founder | Samuel L. Slover, Frank Batten |
| Headquarters | 150 Granby Street Norfolk, Virginia 23510-2075 |
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Key people
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Frank Batten Jr., Chairman and CEO Jack Ross, President and COO |
| Subsidiaries |
Dominion Enterprises Expedient The Virginian-Pilot Landmark Community Newspapers |
Frank Batten Jr., Chairman and CEO
Landmark Media Enterprises, LLC (formerly Landmark Communications) is a privately held media company headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia specializing in newspaper publishing, Internet publishing, software and data centers.
The company was founded in 1905 as Norfolk Newspapers, a holding company for the newspaper properties of Samuel L. Slover. They included papers which would eventually become today's Virginian-Pilot.
Frank Batten, Slover's nephew, took over the company in 1955, and changed its name to Norfolk-Portsmouth Newspapers Inc. in 1957 (reflecting the merger of the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch and Portsmouth Star), then to Landmark Communications in 1967. It became Landmark Media Enterprises in 2008. Landmark is controlled by the Batten family.
Landmark owns four daily newspapers:
The company also owns over 120 community and special-interest newspapers in 16 states. That includes seven publications that cover college sports at Florida State University, University of Florida, Indiana University, University of Iowa (Voice of The Hawkeyes), University of Nebraska, University of Kentucky and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The company owns two alternative newspapers, Norfolk's AltDaily and Richmond's Style Weekly.
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