Mid-South Management Company

Mid-South Management Inc.

Type	Family-owned
Industry	Media
Founded	1948
Headquarters	Spartanburg, South Carolina
Key people	Phyllis B. DeLapp, chairman; Andrew M. Babb, president
Products	Newspapers
Website	midsouthmanagement.com

Mid-South Management Company Inc. ^[1] owns or operates newspapers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia. The family-owned company, based in Spartanburg, South Carolina, was started in 1948 by Phil Buchheit, who was then publisher and operator of the Spartanburg Herald-Journal.

Daily newspapers

• The LaGrange Daily News, LaGrange, Georgia
• The Mount Airy News, Mount Airy, North Carolina
• The Laurinburg Exchange, Laurinburg, North Carolina
• The Union Daily Times, Union, South Carolina

Non-dailies

• The Newberry Observer, Newberry, South Carolina
• The Pickens Sentinel, Pickens, South Carolina
• Easley Progress, Easley, South Carolina
• The Stokes News, Stokes County, North Carolina
• The Jefferson Post, West Jefferson, North Carolina
• Rural Hall Weekly Independent, Rural Hall, North Carolina
• The Tribune, Elkin, North Carolina
• The Yadkin Ripple, Yadkinville, North Carolina
• The Pilot, Pilot Mountain, North Carolina
• The Carroll News, Carroll County, Virginia
• The Thomaston Times, Thomaston, Georgia

Recent changes

In 2005, Mid-South sold the Williamson Daily News, Williamson, West Virginia, and two affiliated weeklies to Heartland Publications.^[2]

In 2006, The Phenix Citizen, Phenix City, Alabama, was sold to Family Media Inc.^[3]

In June 2007, the remainder of the assets were sold to Heartland Publications, LLC, a Connecticut based publisher.^[4]

References

1. Mid-South Management official website
2. Association of Free Community Papers newsletter, May 1, 2005
3. "FMI Buys Phenix City, Ala. Weekly," Editor & Publisher, August 7, 2006
4. Heartland Publications Acquisitions