• by Ray Schultz , July 2, 2023

Greg Hoskins’ Better Newspapers Inc. has acquired the Park Hills Daily Journal (Missouri), Fredericktown Democrat News, Farmington Press and Advantage (Michigan) from Lee Enterprises.

Terms were not disclosed. 

“I am happy to now include The Park Hills Daily Journal, Democrat News, Farmington Press and Advantage as part of our growing, premium newspaper company,” says Greg Hoskins, Publisher at Better Newspapers.

Hoskins pledges “a heightened amount of news content, with an emphasis on increasing local news.”

Better Newspapers will also bring back “local autonomy at each newspaper and the building of a regional, Missouri-based press plant in Park Hills.”

A family-owned company, Better Newspapers Inc. was founded in 1991 and now operates 39 publications in Illinois and Missouri, along with six radio stations.

Lee Enterprises was represented by Dirks, Van Essen & April, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the transaction.