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MaineToday Media, Inc. (abbreviated as MTM) was a privately owned news publisher of daily and weekly newspapers in the U.S. state of Maine, based in the state's largest city, Portland. It included the Portland Press Herald , the state's largest newspaper.
In 2015, Brower bought MaineToday Media from financier S. Donald Sussman. [5] He continued purchasing Maine newspapers; [a] in 2017, he was the owner of 24 papers in Maine, including four of the state's seven daily newspapers. [6] In 2018, he had acquired six of the seven daily papers in the state (the exclusion being the Bangor Daily News). [7]
In 2017, the Sun Media Group was sold by the Costello family to Reade Brower, owner of MaineToday Media. [5] [6] The Sun Journal began publishing its Monday paper online-only March 2, 2020, along with three other Maine Dailies owned by MaineToday Media. On May 21, 2022, the Sun Journal celebrated 175 years of publication.
The company is the consolidated former media companies MaineToday Media, Alliance Media Group and Sun Media Group. [32] Executive editor Steve Greenlee left the paper one year later to become a Boston University professor. [33] In October 2024, he was replaced by Carolyn Fox, the former managing editor of the Tampa Bay Times. [34]
The Advertiser Democrat – Norway, published once a week on Thursdays; American Journal – Westbrook; Aroostook Republican – Caribou; Augusta Capital Weekly – Augusta; The Bar Harbor Times – Bar Harbor, published once a week on Thursdays
The Forecaster is a regional newspaper in southern Maine that is published weekly and distributed for free. Formerly owned by MaineToday Media, [2] the paper and its different versions throughout the state were sold to the Maine Trust for Local News in August 2023. [3]
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, [4] which then acquired Brower's co-owned newspapers in Rutland and Barre–Montpelier, Vermont. [5]
The group was sold to MaineToday Media in 2009. [6] MaineToday Media sold the newspapers to Masthead Maine in 2015, [ 7 ] which in turn sold them in 2023 to the National Trust for Local News , a non-profit organization who operates the papers under its subsidiary, the Maine Trust for Local News.