![]() Publisher, John Walsh, has been a resident of Flagler County for thirty years. The Palm Coast Observer has a circulation of 20,000 and the highest penetration of any medium in Flagler County. In 2010, the company started the Palm Coast Observer. It serves downtown Sarasota and the most affluent communities along the bayfront. In 2004, the company started the Sarasota Observer. Two years later, the Tampa Bay Review and Business Observer merged and later expanded into Southwest Florida by opening offices in Fort Myers and Naples. In 2001, the company acquired the Tampa Bay Review, a 50-year-old legal weekly. Season provides the area’s most comprehensive listing of each quarter’s arts, charitable and social events. In 2000, The Observer Media Group introduced “Season,” a quarterly guide to the Sarasota region’s arts, entertainment and society. In 1998, the company launched the East County Observer to serve the fast-growing suburban areas of east Manatee and Sarasota counties. Two years after acquiring The Longboat Observer, the company started the Gulf Coast Business Review, now called the Business Observer, a weekly that focuses on companies, entrepreneurs and business and economic trends on the west coast of Florida. The Hunters started the paper in 1978.įrom the start of the Longboat Observer through today, the Walshes have focused on creating, producing and delivering compelling and relevant hyper-local news and information to the readers of their community newspapers and websites. After stints at the Miami Herald, Florida Trend magazine and Forbes magazine, Walsh, his wife, her parents and a small group of investors teamed up to purchase the Longboat Observer from its founders, Ralph and Claire Hunter. Matt and Lisa Walsh began their newspaper careers at the Topeka Capital-Journal after graduating from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Beliles’ father, Neil Beliles, worked as a newspaper circulation executive in the 1940s and 1950s. Beliles eventually became a vice president of Topeka, Kan.-based Stauffer Communications, overseeing a dozen Midwest dailies and serving as publisher of the Grand Island, Neb., Independent. ![]() With Emily Walsh serving as publisher of the Sarasota-based free weeklies and, she marks the fourth generation of the family in the newspaper business.ĭavid and Ruth Beliles began their newspaper careers in the 1950s in Illinois. The Observer Media Group is owned by its founders and principals, Matt and Lisa Walsh and their daughter, Emily Walsh and Lisa Walsh’s parents, David and Ruth Beliles. Season magazine is the quarterly arts and social guide, and LWR Life is a quarterly, coated-stock magazine distributed in Lakewood Ranch in partnership with Schroeder-Manatee Ranch.Īltogether, the company’s newspapers, magazines and websites reach more than 456,000 readers a week. The company’s associated websites include, ,, and. The company’s portfolio of newspapers includes four free community weeklies serving the Sarasota-Bradenton, Fla., market - East County Observer, Longboat Observer, Sarasota Observer and Siesta Key Observer three free weeklies and four free monthlies serving the east coast - Palm Coast Observer, Ormond Beach Observer and the West Orange Times & Observer, and Southwest Orange Observer serving the communities of Winter Garden, Windermere, Ocoee, and Horizon West in Orange County the Business Observer, a paid-circulation weekly with subscribers extending from Tampa to Naples and the Jacksonville Daily Record, a weekly serving Greater Jacksonville. has grown into a multimedia company with 12 community and monthly newspapers, six websites, three business newspapers, three lifestyle magazines and more than 125 employees serving multiple communities around Florida. Formed in 1995 with the acquisition of the Longboat Observer, the family-owned and operated Observer Media Group Inc.
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