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Johnston Publishing (NI) is a large newspaper group in Northern Ireland consisting of Mortons Newspapers and the News Letter, and is a holding company of Johnston Press. The company was formed following Johnston Press's purchase of Century Newspapers (publishers of the daily newspaper, the ''News Letter'') from Trinity Mirror, and Scottish Radio Holdings' 45 weekly newspapers (Score Press) following their take over by EMAP. The company is one of the two main holding companies for Johnston Press on the island of Ireland, the other one being Derry Journal Newspapers in the northwest. Johnston Publishing (NI) has its headquarters in Portadown, County Armagh. ==Morton Newspapers/Score Press== Morton Newspapers was set up by John Morton in 1936, when he purchased the ''Lurgan Mail'' title. It slowly expanded over the next eight decades purchasing the ''Portadown Times'' in 1949, the ''Londonderry Sentinel'' in 1953 and the ''Ballymena Times'' in 1986 amongst others. It also launched several newspapers including the ''Ulster Star'' in 1957 and ''FarmWeek'' in 1959.〔(History of Morton Newspapers )〕 In December 1995, the sale of the company by the Morton family to Scottish Radio Holding's was completed for £11.2m, and became part of Score Press.〔(Newspaper Society Database of Mergers )〕 Ten years later in 2005, Scottish Radio Holding's 45 titles (sixteen in Scotland, twenty-four in Northern Ireland and five in the Republic of Ireland), including Morton Newspapers, were bought by Johnston Press for £155m〔(Ketupa Media Profiles: Johnston Press )〕 and became known as Johnston Publishing (NI). Mortons Newspapers is now a subsidiary of Johnston Publishing (NI), and is used to differentiate between the local newspapers (Mortons) and the daily title, the ''News Letter'' The cragavon echo has been pulled - stopped printing last week fist week June 2010 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Johnston Publishing (NI)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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