The Glendale News Press is a daily newspaper

Newspaper

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 published by the Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

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in Glendale, California

Glendale, California

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. The paper was formed when Ira Clifton Copley

Ira Clifton Copley

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's Copley Press

Copley Press

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 bought and combined the Glendale Daily Press and the Glendale Evening News.

Copley sold the News Press and the Burbank Daily Review

Burbank Leader

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to Morris Newspapers

Morris Communications

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 in 1974; however Morris sold off the papers two years later. Ingersoll Publications bought the papers in 1980.

Page Group Publishing, who had just bought the Orange Coast Daily Pilot

Daily Pilot

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and the Huntington Beach Independent

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, acquired the paper from Ingersoll in 1989. Times Mirror bought the newspaper group in 1993.

The Glendale News-Press covers news, entertainment and sports in Glendale, La Crescenta and Montrose. With a readership of more than 22,000, the daily newspaper has the largest circulation of any local publication.