Dow Jones Local Media Group
Dow Jones Local Media Group, Inc., formerly Ottaway Community Newspapers, is a subsidiary of Dow Jones & Company, which is itself a subsidiary of News Corporation and owns newspapers, Web sites and niche publications in California, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon and Pennsylvania. It is headquartered in Middletown, New York, and its flagship is the Times Herald-Record.
The Ottaway organization was founded in 1936 and grew to nine newspapers in the northeastern United States by 1970, when it was acquired by Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal.
Ottaway became part of News Corp. when News Corp. bought Dow Jones for $5 billion in late 2007. Dow Jones changed the Ottaway name to a Dow Jones variation in 2009.
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