Cape Cod Publishing Company, based in Orleans, Massachusetts, USA, was a publisher of weekly newspapers in the 1990s. It was created by Fidelity Investments as a holding company for newspapers acquired on Cape Cod, and eventually folded into Fidelity's Community Newspaper Company. CNC is now owned by GateHouse Media. Four years before Cape Cod Publishing was formed, Fidelity Investments had provided some financing in Cape publisher Barry Paster's successful bid for North Shore Weeklies. The North Shore papers eventually became the first component of Fidelity's newspaper chain, which came to... be known as Community Newspaper Company. In 1990, Paster sold his original paper, The Register of Yarmouth -- to Fidelity, which also picked up The Cape Codder of Orleans, a twice-weekly covering the Outer Cape, from longtime publisher Malcolm Hobbs. The company grew substantially in 1991 with the purchase of 12 weekly newspapers from Memorial Press Group, including the Bourne Courier, Cape Cod News, Cape Cod Oracle, Mashpee Messenger and Village Broadsider.
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