MLive Media Group (previously as Booth Newspapers and Booth Michigan) is a media group that produces newspapers for the state of Michigan, headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Founded by George Gough Booth with his two brothers, Booth Newspapers was sold to Advance Publications, a Samuel I. Newhouse property, in 1976.
MLive Media Group newspaper publications include The Ann Arbor News, The Bay City Times, The Flint Journal, The Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle, The Saginaw News, and Advance Newspapers. All of Advance Publications' Michigan content is published on Mlive.com.
History
Early history
Booth Newspapers was founded by George Gough Booth and his brothers in 1893 and was a media company based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In 1976, Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr. of Advance Publications acquired Booth Newspapers for $305 million, the .