Canada-based Transcontinental Media has acquired two newspapers in the past week.

The media group acquired L'Autre Voix, which serves 13,500 households in Quebec's Côte-de-Beaupré region, on Friday. Last Thursday, Transcontinental bought acquired Italian-language weekly Corriere Italiano, which serves the Italian-speaking community in Montreal.

Transcontinental now owns 172 publications across Canada, totalling about 250 million copies each year.

L'Autre Voix was founded four years ago by area businessman Mathieu Tremblay, with readership in the area east of Quebec City. The weekly Corriere Italiano, first published in 1952 by Alfredo Gagliardi, currently reaches 13,500 households in the Montreal area, Fox Business reported.