Game Changers: Ownership of local newspapers back in Sonoma County

The hometown newspaper may not have big corporate muscle behind it any longer, but it has something much, much better: Local owners who have plans to enhance its services and coverage area, and who vow to keep publishing the daily newspaper in paper form.

Sonoma County's Press Democrat newspaper, and its sister papers the Petaluma Argus-Courier and the North Bay Business Journal, were purchased late last year by a new local investors group, Sonoma Media Investments, after being owned by East Coast companies for nearly 30 years.

Read my interview with two of the members of the new ownership group –– Steve Falk (pictured left) and Darius Anderson –– in the special "Game Changers" issue of NorthBay biz magazine: http://tinyurl.com/q3474v5