[3] The transition seemed to be relatively smooth since Rawland's nephew, Paul I. Griffith, was appointed as general manager.
Donrey Media Group sold the newspaper to CNHI in July 1998.
A former employee, Bob Sonderegger, wrote in a Texas Journalism Review article that "When CNHI took over the Cleburne Times-Review from Donrey Media, they were real slow on paying a lot of their bills.
When CNHI bought the Cleburne paper in July of 1998, Ralph Martin was chief executive officer.
CNHI is known for cluster-bleeping community papers by combining printing plants but Martin chose to leave Cleburne in tact [sic].