Sunbury, Pennsylvania The Danville News weekdays only, of Danville, Pennsylvania These four daily newspapers were sold by Ottaway to CNHI for $182 million in 2002: The Herald of Sharon, Pennsylvania The Independent of Ashland, Kentucky The Free Press of Mankato, Minnesota The Joplin Globe of Joplin, Missouri Also, Ottaway sold the three daily newspapers of Essex County Newspapers Inc. to The Eagle-Tribune of North Andover, Massachusetts, in 2002, for $70 million. The Eagle-Tribune, along with the Essex papers listed below, was later purchased by CNHI. Daily News of Newburyport of Newburyport, Massachusetts Gloucester Daily Times of Gloucester, Massachusetts Salem Evening News of Salem, Massachusetts Sale to Newcastle 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. Newcastle combined Local Media Group with the post-bankruptcy GateHouse Media later in 2013 to form New Media Investment Group. Holdings Holdings by frequency of publication Dow Jones Local Media Group published eight daily and 15 weekly newspapers in seven U.S. states. Its circulation was given in 2005 as 282,000 daily, 316,000 Sunday and 119,000 daily unique visitors on newspaper Internet sites. Daily newspapers are: Ashland Daily Tidings of Ashland, Oregon (sold) Cape Cod Times of Barnstable, Massachusetts Mail Tribune of Medford, Oregon (sold) Pocono Record of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania The Portsmouth Herald of Portsmouth, New Hampshire The Record of Stockton, California The Standard-Times of New Bedford, Massachusetts Times Herald-Record of Middletown, New York Weekly and twice-weekly newspapers include the following: The Barnstable Patriot of Barnstable, Massachusetts The Inquirer & Mirror of Nantucket, Massachusetts Hathaway Publishing, published alongside The Standard-Times: The Advocate of Fairhaven, Massachusetts The Chronicle of Dartmouth, Massachusetts The Fall River Spirit of Fall River, Massachusetts Middleboro Gazette of Middleborough, Massachusetts The Spectator of Somerset, Massachusetts The New England Business Bulletin of Southeastern Massachusetts Seacoast Media Group, published alongside The Portsmouth Herald: The Exeter News-Letter of Exeter, New Hampshire (twice-weekly) The Hampton Union of Hampton, New Hampshire (twice-weekly) The Rockingham