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California Newspapers Battle Over Lucrative Rights To Print Legal Notices
- Poynter, Tuesday, January 3, 2012 2:54 PM
Printing legal notices is a major revenue source for local newspapers -- and local competitors sometimes battle over which papers "meet the legal requirements to publish" such notices, writes Steve Myers.
California-based MediaNews’ Bay Area News Group just won out over Tri-City Voice, a "twice-weekly independent newspaper serving the southeastern Bay area" -- and now the Voice claims "that MediaNews is trying to put it out of business," writes Myers.
