Mediagazer: GateHouse restructures Mass. weeklies (Dan Kennedy/Media Nation)

10:45 PM ET, November 18, 2013

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Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:

GateHouse restructures Mass. weeklies — Big news out of GateHouse Media today, but what happened isn't entirely clear. From what I've been able to figure out, the struggling company has decided to close or combine some of its weaker weekly papers in Massachusetts and pump additional resources into about 10 stronger ones.

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