Employees all Journal Register Co. newspapers, including The Mercury, have received termination notices as part of a bankruptcy proceeding.
Posted on 22 February 2013.
Employees all Journal Register Co. newspapers, including The Mercury, have received termination notices as part of a bankruptcy proceeding.
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Posted on 11 March 2009.
LOWER POTTSGROVE PA – Newspaper reporter Michael Hays, who covers Lower Pottsgrove (PA) and Limerick (PA) townships for The (Pottstown PA) Mercury newspaper, reportedly will leave that position at mid-month and join the staff of WhatsThe422.com, an interactive, online-only news resource that reports daily from municipalities in the Upper Perkiomen Valley and much of the [...]
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Posted on 23 February 2009.
POTTSTOWN PA – Depending on your point of view as an outsider or a stakeholder, it was either an ugly or life-saving weekend for print journalism in the Greater Philadelphia area. Journal Register Co., which owns The (Pottstown PA) Mercury newspaper, filed for bankruptcy Saturday (Feb. 21, 2009). Philadelphia Newspapers LLC, owner of The Philadelphia [...]
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Posted on 12 February 2009.
POTTSTOWN PA – Borrowing money it couldn’t pay back led in 1990 to the downfall of Ingersoll Publications, a company that formerly managed The (Pottstown PA) Mercury newspaper. Now it may also be the undoing of The Mercury’s current owner, Journal Register Company (JRC). The Mercury is Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township‘s newspaper of record for [...]
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Posted on 21 November 2008.
POTTSTOWN PA – The Mercury, the daily newspaper that serves Sanatoga, Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township, and surrounding portions of western Montgomery, northern Chester and eastern Berks counties, may be up for sale … or may not. No matter what its future, uncertainty over its status is raising eyebrows. Journal Register Company (JRC), The Mercury’s corporate [...]
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