DeSoto Tribune sold to cross-county neighbor
The DeSoto Times has reached an agreement to purchase the DeSoto County Tribune along with the Home Market magazine, Click magazine and the newspaper’s Web site from Jackson-based Emmerich Newspapers.
The deal was announced this week in the pages of the Times, a thrice-weekly newspaper based in Hernando. The Tribune publishes weekly on Thursday. It was purchased in 2001 by Emmerich from founder Doug Jones.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.