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Home News Enterprises is an American family-owned printer and publisher of daily and weekly newspapers, based in Columbus, Indiana. Its flagship newspaper is ''The Republic'' in Columbus, and its other newspaper holdings also cover small cities and counties south and east of Indianapolis. Not counting its 2012 acquisition of ''The Tribune'', the company boasts an overall circulation of 55,000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://homenewsenterprises.com/ )〕 == History == Home News' current president, Jeffrey N. Brown, is the great-grandson of Isaac T. Brown, who founded ''The Columbus Republican'' in 1872. Isaac's father, Isaac M. Brown, served as the newspaper's editor. Isaac T. Brown died in 1917, leaving his son Raymond Brown in sole control of the newspaper.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/page/Mission%20History )〕 Raymond Brown converted the company into a partnership with his wife Anna in 1942, and in 1963 expanded the partnership to include their adult children Richard Brown, Robert N. Brown and Elizabeth B. Marshall. The partnership became a limited liability company (LLC) in 1994.〔 The company began expanding its holdings in 1963, when Robert N. Brown started the ''Daily Journal'' in Johnson County, which borders on Columbus' Bartholomew County to the north.〔 In 1973, Home News acquired ''The Greenfield Daily Reporter'', in Hancock County east of Indianapolis, a year after the death of Dorothea Spencer, whose family had started the paper in 1908. Home News purchased two competing weekly newspapers in Northern Indiana, the ''Angola Herald'' and ''Steuben Republican'', in 1982 and combined them into one newspaper, publishing twice each week. The company held this Angola publication until 2001, when it sold the ''The Herald Republican'' to KPC Media Group of Kendallville, Indiana, which converted it to a daily newspaper.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.kpcnews.com/?x=about )〕 Around the same time as the Angola purchase, Home News bought the ''Herald Journal'' in Monticello, in north-central Indiana. It sold this paper in 2008 to Community Newspaper Group of West Frankfort, Illinois. At the time, Home News CEO Jeffrey N. Brown said his company wanted to concentrate on "our cluster of newspapers and commercial printing around the Indianapolis and southern Indiana areas". The company had expanded its footprint in the Columbus area in 2002, buying its neighboring weekly the ''Brown County Democrat'' (founded as ''The Jacksonian'' in 1870).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bcdemocrat.com/index.php?id=6 )〕 Five years later it grew its holdings east of Indianapolis with the June 2007 purchase of two weeklies in Madison County, the ''Lapel Post'' and ''The Pendleton Times'', which it combined into the ''Times-Post''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://homenewsenterprises.com/timespost.php )〕 Home News added its latest title in 2012, purchasing ''The Tribune'' for an undisclosed sum from California-based publisher Freedom Communications, which was emerging from bankruptcy and selling several of its newspaper assets at the time. ''The Tribune'' covers Seymour, Indiana, in Jackson County, which borders Bartholomew County to the south; Home News had been printing ''The Tribune'' at its Columbus presses "for several years". 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「Home News Enterprises」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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