Heartland Publications
{{Infobox company
| name = Heartland Publications, LLC
| type = Private
| foundation = {{Start date|2004}}
| defunct = {{End date|2012}}
| location = Clinton, Connecticut
| industry = Newspapers, marketing
| products = Daily and weekly newspapers
| fate = Merged
| key_people = Michael Bush
| parent = The Wicks Group of Companies and Wachovia Capital Partners
| successor = Civitas Media
| homepage = heartlandpublications.com
| footnotes =
}}
Heartland Publications was a Connecticut-based owner of small to medium market newspapers, and started out by acquiring 24 publications from Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.{{citation |accessdate=April 23, 2017|url= http://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/cnhi-sells-22-papers-to-mcginnis/ |author=Editor and Publisher | title= CNHI Sells 22 Papers to McGinnis }} located in Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and West Virginia. They acquired 5 additional publications from Mid-South Management Co., Inc. in 2005{{citation |accessdate=April 23, 2017|url= http://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/heartland-buys-w-va-papers/ |author=Editor and Publisher | title= Heartland Buys W. Va. Papers }} and 2007,{{citation |accessdate=April 23, 2017|url= http://dirksvanessen.com/press_releases/print_view/68/mid-south-management-co-inc-so/ |author=Dirks, Van Essen & Murray | title= Mid-South Management Co. Inc. Sold to Heartland Publications LLC }} located in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Heartland Publications filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2009,{{citation |accessdate=April 23, 2017|url= http://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/heartland-owner-of-23-papers-declares-bankruptcy/ |author=Editor and Publisher | title= Heartland, Owner of 23 Papers, Declares Bankruptcy }} and left bankruptcy in 2010{{citation |accessdate=April 23, 2017|url= http://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/heartland-publications-to-emerge-from-bankruptcy-april-30/ |author=Editor and Publisher | title= Heartland Publications to Emerge From Bankruptcy April 30 }} under control of its creditors. It was acquired by Versa Capital Management in 2012,{{citation |accessdate=April 10, 2017|url= http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120911006840/en/Versa-Capital-Announces-Formation-Civitas-Media-LLC |author=Business Wire | title= Versa Capital Announces the Formation of Civitas Media, LLC |date= 12 September 2012 }} and along with Freedom Central, Impressions Media, and Ohio Community Media, were consolidating into Civitas Media.