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Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram

Daily morning broadsheet newspaper and Web site

Kennebec Journal

Daily morning broadsheet newspaper and Web site

Morning Sentinel

Daily morning broadsheet newspaper and Web site

The Maine Switch

Weekly free tabloid and Web site targeted at post-college singles

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Union seeking rich person to purchase daily newspaper

Newspaper Guild looks for partners with money

Newspaper's Employees Consider Buying the Company

Guild explores purchase of Blethen Maine Newspapers

Blethen To Step Down In Seven Years - But Keep Business In The Family

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Portland Newspaper Guild Encouraged by Local Effort to Buy Maine Newspapers

The announced exclusive negotiation period between Blethen Maine Newspapers and Maine Media Investments is good

Newspaper's Employees Consider Buying the Company

Reported by: Barbara Cariddi, MPBN Radio News Producer

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Maine newspaper takes out its own Want Ad

(Amy Sinclair, NECN: Portland, Maine) - These are tough times in both the newspaper and broadcast business. Some companies are downsizing and laying off workers to handle the decline in ad revenues brought on by the flagging economy. At Maine’s largest newspaper, employees are hoping to take control of their own economic future.

Newspaper Guild Retains Advisor and Announces Exploration of Bid for Blethen Newspapers

The Portland Newspaper Guild announced today that it has launched an exploratory effort to make a bid for local employee ownership of the Blethen Maine Newspapers and Web sites following the Seattle Times Co. announcement last month that it was offering all its Maine properties for sale.