He is now the owner of MaineToday Media, Sun Media Group — the Lewiston paper’s publisher — and Courier Publications, a group of coastal weeklies. “They just gave me a key last week,” Mr. Brower said, fishing it from the pocket of his shorts. The previous owner of The Portland Press Herald, Donald Sussman, was married to Chellie Pingree, a Democratic congresswoman from Maine. But Mr. Brower said he has an advantage over publicly traded media corporations like Gannett and GateHouse. “They shut off the lights, they closed the stadium up, they kicked everybody out.”In the end, Mr. Brower was the only person left.

Source: New York Times November 27, 2017 00:33 UTC