Mid-South Management Company

Mid-South Management Company Inc. was a family-owned, Spartanburg, South Carolina-based publisher of small to medium market newspapers[2] in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia. The company was started in 1948 by Phil Buchheit, who was then publisher and operator of the Spartanburg Herald-Journal.

Mid-South Management Inc.
TypeFamily-owned
IndustryMedia
FateAssets acquired by Heartland Publications [1]
Founded1948
Defunct2007
HeadquartersSpartanburg, South Carolina
Key people
Phyllis B. DeLapp, chairman; Andrew M. Babb, president
ProductsNewspapers
Websitemidsouthmanagement.com

Daily newspapers

Non-dailies

Recent changes

In 2005, Mid-South sold the Williamson Daily News, Williamson, West Virginia, and two affiliated weeklies to Heartland Publications.[3]

In 2006, The Phenix Citizen, Phenix City, Alabama, was sold to Family Media Inc.[4]

In June 2007, the remainder of the assets were sold to Heartland Publications, LLC, a Connecticut based publisher.[5]

References
  1. Dirks, Van Essen & Murray, Mid-South Management Co. Inc. Sold to Heartland Publications LLC, retrieved April 23, 2017
  2. Mid-South Management official website Archived 2007-01-22 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Association of Free Community Papers newsletter, May 1, 2005 Archived September 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  4. "FMI Buys Phenix City, Ala. Weekly," Editor & Publisher, August 7, 2006
  5. Heartland Publications Acquisitions
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