For Sale: A Small-Town Journalism Future

This Oregon weekly can be yours.

MalheurEnterpriseThe price for this Vale, Ore. publication was once $90,000. It’s now down to a very reasonable $26,000.

Owner-operator Rick Nelson, a one-time copy editor and music journalist with The News Tribune in Tacoma, Wash., is determined to sell weekly newspaper The Malheur Enterprise by fall. He’s been running it remotely, is ready for retirement and says the potential is unlimited:

The good news: We’re back in the black after losing $13,000 last year as the recession bottomed out.

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