Mid-South Management Company
{{Infobox company
| name = Mid-South Management Inc.
| logo =
| type = Family-owned
| foundation = 1948
| defunct = 2007
| location = Spartanburg, South Carolina
| key_people = Phyllis B. DeLapp, chairman; Andrew M. Babb, president
| fate = Assets acquired by Heartland Publications{{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 }}
| industry = Media
| products = Newspapers
| homepage = [http://www.midsouthmanagement.com/ midsouthmanagement.com]}}
Mid-South Management Company Inc. was a family-owned, Spartanburg, South Carolina-based publisher of small to medium market newspapers[http://www.midsouthmanagement.com/NewSlide.html Mid-South Management official website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070122193001/http://www.midsouthmanagement.com/NewSlide.html |date=2007-01-22 }} in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia. The company was started in 1948 by Phil Buchheit, who was then publisher and operator of the Spartanburg Herald-Journal.
Daily newspapers
Non-dailies
- The Newberry Observer, Newberry, South Carolina
- The Pickens Sentinel, Pickens, South Carolina
- Easley Progress, Easley, South Carolina
- The Stokes News, Stokes County, North Carolina
- The Jefferson Post, West Jefferson, North Carolina
- Rural Hall Weekly Independent, Rural Hall, North Carolina
- The Tribune, Elkin, North Carolina
- The Yadkin Ripple, Yadkinville, North Carolina
- The Pilot, Pilot Mountain, North Carolina
- The Carroll News, Carroll County, Virginia
- The Thomaston Times, Thomaston, Georgia
Recent changes
In 2005, Mid-South sold the Williamson Daily News, Williamson, West Virginia, and two affiliated weeklies to Heartland Publications.[http://www.afcp.org/design/general/showink.asp?gid=382 Association of Free Community Papers newsletter, May 1, 2005] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929044534/http://www.afcp.org/design/general/showink.asp?gid=382 |date=September 29, 2007 }}
In 2006, The Phenix Citizen, Phenix City, Alabama, was sold to Family Media Inc.[http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/article_brief/eandp/1/1002951210 "FMI Buys Phenix City, Ala. Weekly," Editor & Publisher, August 7, 2006]
In June 2007, the remainder of the assets were sold to Heartland Publications, LLC, a Connecticut based publisher.[http://www.heartlandpublications.com/articles/2007/06/01/company_news/news01.txt Heartland Publications Acquisitions]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}