WEHCO Media, parent company of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, will buy the Jefferson City (Mo.) News Tribune, Editor & Publisher reported Thursday.
The News Tribune has been owned by the Weldon family since 1927, and was published by Betty Weldon until she passed away in 2007.
The terms of the transaction have not been released. The Daily Fulton and the Weekly California Democrat, both also in Missouri, were also included in the sale, according to E&P.
The Democrat-Gazette, the Chattanooga (Tennessee), Times Free-Press and seven other dailies and 13 cable TV stations, are owned by WEHCO Media.

