Landmark Community Newspapers, LLC

On May 27, 2021, Landmark Community Newspapers, LLC was sold to Paxton Media Group, LLC, a privately controlled newspaper publishing oompany based in Paducah, Kentucky.

Based in Shelbyville, Kentucky, Landmark Community Newspapers operated 46 newspapers in nine states at the time of the sale. Most of the former Landmark newspapers are located in the eastern United States with particular concentrations in Kentucky and Florida.

The company's former flagship newspaper, The Virginian-Pilot, is published in Norfolk, Virginia. On May 29, 2018, Tronc Inc. (now Tribune Publishing Company) bought the newspaper from Landmark for $34 million.

Landmark Community Newspapers was a subsidiary of Landmark Media Enterprises LLC, a company based in Norfolk, Virginia formerly known as Landmark Communciations, Inc. and controlled by the Batten family.

Started as a small printing cooperative formed by rural Kentucky publishers, the company traces its history to 1966, when eight small-town publishers pooled resources to build a printing plant in Shelbyville, Kentucky. Two years later, they incorporated to become Newspapers, Inc. and began buying other newspapers in Central Kentucky. Within five years, Newspapers, Inc. owned 18 newspapers and four printing plants. That drew the interest of Landmark Communications, Inc. Landmark bought Newspapers, Inc. in September 1973. The company kept its headquarters in Shelbyville next door to the first printing plant.