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Cape Cod Publishing Company, based in Orleans, Massachusetts, USA, was a publisher of weekly newspapers in the 1990s. It was created by Fidelity Investments as a holding company for newspapers acquired on Cape Cod, and eventually folded into Fidelity's Community Newspaper Company. CNC is now owned by GateHouse Media. == History == Four years before Cape Cod Publishing was formed, Fidelity Investments had provided some financing in Cape publisher Barry Paster's successful bid for North Shore Weeklies.〔Adams, Jane Meredith. "North Shore Weeklies Inc. Is Sold". ''The Boston Globe'', page 69, October 9, 1986.〕 The North Shore papers eventually became the first component of Fidelity's newspaper chain, which came to be known as Community Newspaper Company. In 1990, Paster sold his original paper, ''The Register'' of Yarmouth—to Fidelity, which also picked up ''The Cape Codder'' of Orleans, a twice-weekly covering the Outer Cape, from longtime publisher Malcolm Hobbs.〔Vennochi, Joan. "Fidelity's Quiet Venture Into Newspapers". ''The Boston Globe'', June 23, 1991.〕 The company grew substantially in 1991 with the purchase of 12 weekly newspapers from Memorial Press Group, including the ''Bourne Courier'', ''Cape Cod News'', ''Cape Cod Oracle'', ''Mashpee Messenger'' and ''Village Broadsider''. The combined circulation of ''The Register'' and the ''Cape Codder'' was given, at the time, as 27,000; the new additions—two paid weeklies and 10 free papers—added 60,000.〔McLaughlin, Jeff. "Cape Cod Publisher Buys 12 Newspapers". ''The Boston Globe'', October 18, 1991.〕 Cape Cod Publishing held on to this core through the mid-1990s,〔Jurkowitz, Mark. "Does Fidelity Have a Nose for News?" ''The Boston Globe'', December 5, 1995.〕 until it was dissolved in early 1996. CNC realigned its operating units by geography, although the Cape papers were transferred wholesale to CNC's new "Cape Unit", a division of the South Unit.〔Cassidy, Tina. "Community Newspaper Realigns Properties". ''The Boston Globe'', January 12, 1996.〕 By 1999, several of the Cape papers had closed or been consolidated: ''Cape Cod News'' was gone, and the company's Bourne, Mashpee and Sandwich properties were consolidated into one publication, the ''Upper Cape Codder''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cape Cod Publishing Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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