The ''Galion Inquirer'' is an American newspaper published in
Galion, Ohio
Galion ( ) is a city in Crawford County, Ohio, Crawford, Morrow County, Ohio, Morrow, and Richland County, Ohio, Richland counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 10,453 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Galion is the s ...
. It is owned by AIM Media Midwest.
In addition to Galion, the newspaper circulates in
Crestline and
Iberia
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. Ohio Community Newspapers also owns several weekly newspapers in nearby communities, including the ''Bellville Star'' of
Bellville, ''Knox County Citizen'' of
Fredericktown and the ''Morrow County Sentinel & Independent'' of
Mount Gilead.
The ''Inquirer'' and its sister weeklies were owned by Hirt Publishing of
Bellevue, Ohio
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, until August 2005, when they were purchased by
Brown Publishing Company
Brown Publishing Company was a privately owned Cincinnati, Ohio, newspaper business started by Congressman Clarence J. Brown in Blanchester, Ohio in 1920. It ended 90 years of operations in August/September 2010 with its bankruptcy and sale of as ...
.
[
Brown, a ]Cincinnati
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-based family business, declared bankruptcy and was reconstituted as Ohio Community Media
Ohio Community Media was an American privately owned publisher of daily and weekly newspapers, primarily in the state of Ohio. It was headquartered in the Dayton suburb of Miamisburg, Ohio, and was owned by Philadelphia-based Versa Capital Ma ...
in 2010. The company, including the ''Inquirer'', was purchased for an undisclosed sum in 2011 by Philadelphia
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-based Versa Capital Management.
In 2012 Versa merged Ohio Community Media, the former Freedom
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papers it had acquired, Impressions Media
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, name = Impressions Media
, logo =
, type = Private
, foundation = {{start date, 1939, as Wilkes-Barre Publishing Company
, location = 15 North Main Street,Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 1 ...
, and Heartland Publications
Heartland Publications was a Connecticut-based owner of small to medium market newspapers, and started out by acquiring 24 publications from Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. located in Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennesse ...
into a new company, Civitas Media
Civitas Media, LLC was a Davidson, North Carolina–based publisher of community newspapers covering 11 Midwestern, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern states.
History
The company was formed in 2012 via the merger of Heartland Publications, Impressio ...
. Civitas Media sold its Ohio papers to AIM Media Midwest in 2017.
References
External links
''Galion Inquirer'' website
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Newspapers published in Ohio
Crawford County, Ohio
Morrow County, Ohio
1890 establishments in Ohio