Leesburg Today Parent Company Sold

American Community Newspapers LLC, the parent company of Leesburg Today and several other local publications, sold its Northern Virginia division to the Texas-based HPR Hemlock on Tuesday.

Despite the transaction, which had been planned since October 2011, according to Leesburg Today, the publications will remain focused on the local coverage and community journalism they have in some places provided for more than 70 years, executives said.

"HPR Hemlock will be relying on the people who have built these businesses to continue to run them as if they own them,” Richard L. Connor, a media executive overseeing the sale, told Leesburg today.

Along with the local paper, the sale includes Ashburn Today, Loudoun Business, Loudoun Life, Middleburg Life, the Sun Gazette and Arlington Gazette. Together, the publication circulates among more than 191,000 residents, according to Leesburg Today.

The company has also sold publications in Minnesota, Texas and Ohio.

According to statement, staff "will continue to make decisions locally because there are no corporate directives or corporate staff attempting to make what need to be local decisions and strategic initiatives.”

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