GateHouse Media, which earlier this month announced its $1.4 billion purchase of the Gannett Co. to become the nation's largest newspaper chain, plans to close its newspapers in Stuttgart and Helena-West Helena on Sept. 6.
GateHouse also will shut down its printing press in Pine Bluff at the end of September.
GateHouse also said it was continuing talks with prospective buyers of the papers.
About seven people will lose their jobs when the two newspapers are closed, with a similar number affected with the shuttering of the Pine Bluff press, Jennifer Allen, group publisher for GateHouse, said.