Shaw Media (United States)

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Shaw Media is an American, Dixon, Illinois-based publisher, of about 80 newspapers and news websites in Illinois and Iowa.[1] The company has since 2000 acquired a number of properties in the Chicago media market, covering a swath of the north, western and southern suburbs.

Founded in 1851, Shaw Media is the third oldest, continuously owned and operated family newspaper in the nation.[2]

Acquisitions

In 2013, Sun-Times Media sold The Herald-News of Joliet to Shaw Media.[3]

In 2012, Shaw Media acquired Suburban Life Publications, a group of weeklies in Chicago's western suburbs, from GateHouse Media.[4]

Properties

Football magazine

Shaw Media and the Daily Herald announced in spring 2014 the launch of a new Chicago Football magazine led by veteran football analyst Hub Arkush. The first issue is to be published in April 2014.[5][6] The magazine will cover the NFL, college football and high school football.

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