Article: L.A. paper to buy Lakeside Back Country Trader. (Los Angeles Daily Journal, Daily Journal Corp.) (company profile)

L.A. paper to buy Lakeside Back Country Trader

The publicly held owner of a Los Angeles daily newspaper has signed an agreement to buy the Lakeside-based Back Country Trader.

Ethel Elkins, current owner and publisher of the East County community newspaper, maintained that a sale is not necessarily imminent.

But Gerry Salzman, publisher of the Los Angeles Daily Journal and president of the Daily Journal Corp., said both parties have signed a sales agreement. He said he expects to finalize the purchase by Dec. 31. Neither Elkins nor Salzman would disclose a sales price.

"If it isn't headed in that direction, I wouldn't be wasting my time," ...

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