Talk:Utah County Newspapers

Over the last ten years the Provo Daily Herald has purchased and absorbed all local commuity weekly newpapers and after a few years discontinued them. See Provo Daily Herald articles 5 Feb 2009 and 26 Jan 2011

Some of this was simple consolidation, the rest was from the changes in the industry brought on by the Internet itself. Many papers were shuttered due to the economy as well, but in the case of Utah County this was more from cost-cutting plus consolidation. The Herald owned them for many years before that however, probably going back for some time, probably into the early 1990s as probably the most recent purchase dates for these papers.