Buffalo Journalist Laments Closure of Western New York Community Newspapers

Some 200 full-time and part-time employees are affected.

This media bankruptcy tale has nothing to do with the prurient outing of a Silicon Valley billionaire or the prurient publication of a Hulk Hogan sex tape. Rather, it is connected to the actions of a large metropolitan daily newspaper.

As Buffalo Law Reporter editor Michael Petro explains, Community Papers of WNY, the chain where he once worked, recently emerged from a stay of action declared in connection with a bankruptcy filed last December. The original filing came less than two years after the chain and its flagship, The Hamburg Sun, was purchased from Metro Group Inc.

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