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Pulitzer Publishing Co. announced Monday that it has agreed to buy Scripps League Newspapers for between $230 million and $240 million.
Five Scripps League newspapers are in California, including the Record-Gazette in Banning, the Hanford Sentinel, the Napa Valley Register, the Santa Maria Times and the Daily Midway Driller in Taft.
Pulitzer publishes the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Arizona Daily Star of Tucson.
The acquisition signals a change of direction for Pulitzer, which lately has been making acquisitions in the radio and television industry. Pulitzer operates nine network-affiliated television stations and two radio stations.
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