Abilene Reporter-News

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Abilene Reporter-News
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Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Gannett
PublisherNathan Grimm
EditorGreg Jaklewicz
Founded1881
Headquarters101 Cypress Street
Abilene, TX 79601
United States
Circulation 4,499(as of 2023) [1]
Website reporternews.com
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Abilene Reporter-News downtown office

Abilene Reporter-News is a daily newspaper based in Abilene, Texas, United States. The newspaper started publishing as the weekly Abilene Reporter, helmed by Charles Edwin Gilbert on June 17, 1881, just three months after Abilene was founded. It is hence the oldest continuous business in the city. It became a daily newspaper in 1885.

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History

The newspaper, owned in the early 1920s by Bernard Hanks, became one of the two original flagships of the Harte-Hanks newspaper chain in 1924. [2]

In 1937, the company merged its morning paper, The Morning News, with the afternoon Daily Reporter to form the Abilene Reporter-News. The newspaper published morning and evening editions into the 1950s. [3]

The E. W. Scripps Company bought the newspaper, along with other Texas-based Harte-Hanks papers, in 1997. [4] The company spun out its newspaper assets into Journal Media Group in April 2015. [5]

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References

  1. "2023 Texas Newspaper Directory". Texas Press Association. Archived from the original on May 3, 2023. Retrieved May 3, 2023.
  2. Abilene Reporter News: About Us Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine , accessed January 24, 2007.
  3. Kincaid, Naomi Hatton. "Abilene Reporter-News". Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved July 5, 2012.
  4. "Scripps to Acquire Harte-Hanks Outlets - latimes". Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved 2013-10-14. Scripps to Acquire Harte-Hanks Outlets
  5. Gores, Paul (April 1, 2015). "Journal, Scripps merger creates two closely aligned media companies". Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Retrieved April 3, 2015.