Transcon keeps on buying community papers

Quietly, steadily, Transcontinental Media is buying up small newspapers across the country and now has amassed 168 titles. Transcon is the 4th largest media group in Canada. In addition to being one of Canada's largest printers and distributors and a growing new media player as well as the largest producer of consumer magazines, it seems intent on building a formidable community newspaper empire across the country. A release says that, with the latest acquisition, it now produces 250 million copies annually.

In Saskatchewan, for instance, it just bought the weekly The Oxbow Herald, adding it to 8 other newspapers it has acquired in that province alone: two dailies, thePrince Albert Daily Herald, and the Moose Jaw Times-Herald and six weeklies and bi-weeklies: The Radville Star, The Deep South Star, The Triangle News in Coronach, The SouthWest Booster in Swift Current, The Grenfell Sun and The Broadview Express.