Article: Possible buyer visits News Tribune: MEDIA:Fargo, N.D.-based Forum Communications is interested in bidding on the Northland newspaper group.

Byline: Peter Passi

May 12--Potential buyers of the Duluth News Tribune are beginning to look at the property. On Thursday morning, a contingent including Bill Marcil, president and CEO of Forum Communications Co., toured the Duluth News Tribune and its sister paper, the Superior Daily Telegram.

In March, Marcil first publicly expressed interest in buying the News Tribune, the Grand Forks Herald in North Dakota and the Aberdeen American News in South Dakota. Forum Communications owns three television stations and 27 mostly small-market newspapers in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Its largest paper is its flagship, the Fargo Forum, with a ...

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