• by Ray Schultz , July 4, 2024

Times Media Group has acquired the Record Gazette and Sun Lakes Life, from Century Group Media, effective June 30. The terms were not disclosed. 

Also included in the deal were Redlands Community News, Fontana Herald News and Yucaipa and Calimesa News Mirror, Record Gazette reports. 

The weekly publications serve the San Bernardino/Riverside area of California’s Inland Empire. Times Media Group is based in Tempe, Arizona. 

Century Group acquired the Record Gazette and Sun Lakes Life in 1996. The company was founded by Jerry Bean, who previously had served as publisher of Gannet’s San Bernardino Sun, as Century Group Newspapers in 1987. Bean is now retiring.