[2] The chain eventually grew to 51 small newspapers[1] including The Daily Herald of Provo, Utah; Napa Valley Register of Napa, Calif.; Newport Daily Express of Newport, Vt., The Hanford Sentinel of Hanford, Calif., Arizona Daily Sun of Flagstaff, Ariz.,[1] and Haverhill Gazette in Massachusetts.
[3] In December 1975, Scripps League Newspapers spun off a number of numbers to form a new company called Pioneer Newspapers, Inc. (which later became Pioneer News Group).
Hagadone purchased six newspapers and eleven became fully owned by Scripps.
[7] Pulitzer Publishing Company bought Scripps League for about $230 million in 1996.
[3] In 2005, Lee Enterprises bought the Pulitzer newspaper division.