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SAN LEANDRO, Calif. - Just days after Gannett Newspapers and rival Gatehouse Media (the two largest print media empires in the U.S.) announced plans to merge their operations together, the top executives of India-West and India Journal met and also decided that it was time to join forces.
"Given the rapidly changing landscape of print media all across the world, joining forces was not only inevitable, but it also made a lot of common sense," declared both parties.
The challenges for both India-West and India Journal began shortly after the huge mortgage meltdown of 2008. First came the exodus of several corporate advertisers such as State Farm Insurance, AT&T, General Motors and others.
Then came the rapidly growing influence of social media. The power unleashed by both Google and Facebook was unstoppable. These two juggernauts began to...