Company type | Private |
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Industry | Newspapers, marketing |
Founded | 2012 |
Headquarters | Davidson, North Carolina, United States |
Products | Newspapers |
Number of employees | 1,200 [1] |
Parent | Versa Capital Management |
Website |
civitasmedia |
Civitas Media, LLC was a Davidson, North Carolina–based publisher of community newspapers covering 11 Midwestern, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern states.
The company was formed in 2012 via the merger [2] of Heartland Publications, Impressions Media, Ohio Community Media, and Freedom Communications's central division. [3]
In 2017, Civitas sold its newspapers in Ohio, Missouri, West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Oklahoma. It kept the Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, [4] [5] until it sold that newspaper in 2019. [6]