A Family Affair The Life, Times and Sale of a Family-Owned Newspaper

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Jimmy Hurley had said this was a moment he never wanted to see. "Today's the day we're going out of the newspaper business, " he told his devoted staff. "It's a tough thing for me, but the paper will keep going like it always has. What bothers me more than anything is that for the first time in almost one hundred years my family won't be in the newspaper business." Thus did the publisher announce the sale of the Salisbury Post, one of the country's best and prize-winningest small-town dailies. The wonder was that it had taken so long, for by the time of the Post's sale in 1966 the transformation of America's newspapers to corporate ownership was almost complete. Here, in the story of a single newspaper, is the story of that transformation.