History
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 took over the company in 1954, and changed its name to Landmark Communications in 1967. It became Landmark Media Enterprises in 2008.
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