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''The Barnstable Patriot'' is a weekly newspaper published in and for the town of Barnstable, Massachusetts. Although it bills itself as "an independent voice since 1830", ''The Patriot'' has been owned, since 2005, by Local Media Group.〔Fitzgerald, Jay. "Cape Cod Times Purchases Weekly Newspaper Rival." ''Boston Herald'', October 5, 2005.〕 News Corp. acquired ''The Patriot'' when it bought Dow Jones & Company (Ottaway's parent) for US$5 billion in late 2007. Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corp., reportedly told investors before the deal that he would be "selling the local newspapers fairly quickly" after the Dow Jones purchase.〔"Ottaway Papers Might Be Sold, Including 16 in N.E.". (''NEPA Bulletin'' (Boston, Mass.), December 2007 ), page 3.〕 On September 4, 2013, News Corp announced that it would sell the Dow Jones Local Media Group to Newcastle Investment Corp.—an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group, for $87 million. The newspapers will be operated by GateHouse Media, a newspaper group owned by Fortress. News Corp. CEO and former ''Wall Street Journal'' editor Robert James Thomson indicated that the newspapers were "not strategically consistent with the emerging portfolio" of the company. GateHouse in turn filed prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy on September 27, 2013, to restructure its debt obligations in order to accommodate the acquisition. == Sisters and competitors == Although Ottaway also owns ''The Patriot'' Community Newspaper Company publishes a competitor weekly newspaper, ''The Register'', in Barnstable. 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「The Barnstable Patriot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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