“My approach is to make it a local paper, but not too micro-local,” Mr. Pozarycki said. “There needs to be more attention paid to real estate and development, and their impact in the community.”

Schneps Media spans four city boroughs and parts of Long Island, with a satellite office in Westchester County. Its publications include its flagship, The Queens Courier, as well as The Jamaica Times, The Brooklyn Paper, The Brooklyn Courier, Brownstoner, The Villager and El Correo. It also has a paper aimed mainly at employees of La Guardia Airport and Kennedy International Airport, The Airport Voice.

Ms. Schneps-Yunis became a publisher in 1985, when she helped start The Whitestone-College Point Courier (later The Queens Courier) in northwest Queens. As the years went by, she pieced together a small media empire.

Even with the death knell sounding for local print publications across the country, Schneps Media undertook its greatest expansion last year with the purchase of two local-news rivals, Community News Group and NYC Community Media. Those companies, owned by the husband-and-wife team of Les and Jennifer Goodstein, had more than two dozen newspapers and websites in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx.

“We felt Schneps was the best possible owner to keep the brands and entity going,” said Mr. Goodstein, a former executive at News Corporation. “They are dedicated newspaper publishers.”