Deal Watch is The American Lawyer’s (mostly) weekly roundup of big-ticket and transformative deals and the law firms that guide them. Have a transaction you’d like us to consider? Email us at [email protected].

With 615 titles and a readership of 8.61 million, newly combined Gannett and GateHouse Media represent a huge slice of the local newspaper ecosystem in the United States, or at least what’s left of it.