The Advocate Weekly Newspapers are three free weekly alternative newspapers in central and southwestern Connecticut, published by New Mass. Media Inc.
New Mass. Media was privately owned until 1999, when its owners, including founding publisher Geoffrey Robinson, sold the company to The Hartford Courant for an undisclosed sum. A year later, Courant parent company Times-Mirror was bought by the Tribune Company, based in Chicago.
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