After more than a decade of being owned by corporations based in the Eastern U.S., the Norwood Post was bought last week by Randy Miller, a veteran newspaperman from Boulder.
Miller also purchased the Post’s sister publications, the Telluride Daily Planet and the Silverton Standard & Miner. The papers had been most recently owned by Gatehouse Media, a New York corporation that publishes hundreds of papers across the nation.
Miller, a former editor, is the owner of a weekly newspaper in Tucson, Arizona. He is also the former owner of the Colorado Daily, a free paper in Boulder. Miller, 56, also announced last week that he is naming Andrew Mirrington, 37, publisher of the Post, Planet and Standard. Mirrington is currently the director of advertising at the Colorado Daily. Mirrington will reside in Telluride and handle the day-to-day operations at the three publications.
Miller first visited Telluride in 1975 and said he’s wanted to own a newspaper here ever since that time. He had just graduated from the University of Missouri with a master’s degree in journalism, and instead of buying the Telluride Times, he decided to buy a small paper in Marceline, Missouri. Miller eventually worked at more than a half-dozen newspaper in the West and Midwest as publisher, owner and editor. During that time he edited a couple of Pulitzer-prize winning photographs in the Detroit Free Press.
Miller purchased the Colorado Daily in 2001, and sold it to its competitor the Boulder Daily Camera in 2005. He bought the Tucson Explorer, a weekly with a 50,000 circulation of 50,000, last year.