Nashua Telegraph Changing Hands

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After a 36-year tenure, Bryn Mawr, Penn.-based Independent Publications Inc. on April 22 will turn over the reins of The Nashua Telegraph to the Ogden Newspapers, Inc. chain, Telegraph Publisher Terrence L. Williams announced today.

The Telegraph, which has long been owned by the McLean family, will join the Ogden family stable, giving the media conglomerate, which began in West Virginia, a daily newspaper presence in 13 states. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, though besides the Telegraph, Ogden also will be taking on the Cabinet newspapers, which include the Bedford Journal and Milford Cabinet.

Robert M. Nutting, the CEO of Ogden, which owns more than 40 newspapers, is the incoming chair of the Newspaper Association of America.