“Welcome to Texas.” That was how the gentleman on the other end of the phone greeted me.
For a moment I tried to place the voice. My day had already been full of calls. Some folks offered congratulations. Others were gentle but direct, reminding me of the long history and significance of the newspapers that had just changed hands. This caller was another publisher. Someone who understood exactly what had just happened.
Times Media Group – the company I started in 1997 as a single 5,000-circulation newspaper – had just acquired Texas Local Media (also known as Moser Community Media) and its 32 community newspapers. In our business, news like that travels fast.

