Arizona Silver Belt

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Arizona Silver Belt
Type Weekly newspaper
Owner(s)O’Rourke Media Group
PublisherMonica Watson
Managing editorCassie Tafoya
FoundedMay 1878
Ceased publication2025
HeadquartersGlobe, Arizona
Circulation 987(as of 2022) [1]
Website silverbelt.com

The Arizona Silver Belt is a newspaper in Globe, Arizona. [2] [3] [4]

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History

The newspaper was first published on May 2, 1878. [5] [6] [7] In 1906, editor Joseph H. Hamill increased publication to a daily newspaper and changed the title to the Daily Arizona Silver Belt. [8] The title was later changed back to the Arizona Silver Belt.

In 2008, GateHouse Media sold the paper to News Media Corporation. [9] The paper ceased in 2025. [10] It was then sold to and revived by O’Rourke Media Group. [11]

References

  1. ↑ "2022 ANA Directory by ANA News - Issuu". issuu.com. Retrieved April 13, 2023.
  2. ↑ Arizona Silver Belt on the Arizona Memory Project
  3. ↑ Peter Massey, Jeanne Wilson, Backcountry Adventures Arizona: The Ultimate Guide to the Arizona Backcountry for Anyone With a Sport Utility Vehicle, Castle Rock, Colorado: Adler Publishing, 2006, p. 38
  4. ↑ Peter Massey, Jeanne Wilson, Angela Titus, Arizona Trails Central Region, Adler Publishing, 2006, p. 227
  5. ↑ Elliott West, The Saloon on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier, Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1996, p. 170
  6. ↑ Clare Vernon McKanna, White justice in Arizona: Apache murder trials in the nineteenth century, Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Press, 2005, p. 208
  7. ↑ Allan Radbourne, Joyce L. Jauch, Mickey Free: Apache captive, interpreter, and Indian Scout, Arizona Historical Society, 2005, p. 236
  8. ↑ Daily Arizona Silver Belt on the Arizona Memory Project
  9. ↑ "GateHouse Media Sells Arizona Silver Belt in Globe, Arizona to News Media Corporation". Dirks, Van Essen & April. May 5, 2008. Retrieved October 14, 2024.
  10. ↑ Raza, Sarah; Dura, Jack (August 8, 2025). "Newspaper chain closure includes 5 Arizona properties". Arizona Daily Star. Associated Press. Retrieved August 10, 2025.
  11. ↑ "O'Rourke Media Group to Acquire Arizona Newspapers". City Sun Times. August 21, 2025. Retrieved August 21, 2025.