List of family-owned newspapers in the United States

The following is a partial list of family-owned newspapers in the United States. It represents the small subset of the list of newspapers in the United States which are run by a family business, and may include exceptions to or examples of concerns about concentration of media ownership.

A - L

• The Adair County Free Press , Greenfield, Iowa – established 1889 by the Sidey family, still in operation
• The Argus-Press , Owosso, Michigan – established 1916
• The Bangor Daily News , Bangor, Maine – family-owned since 1889
• The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus – Barre Times and Montpelier Argus, both est. 1897, merged in 1959, owned by Mitchell family since 1964
• The Bourbon County Citizen – family-owned and operated by the Brannnon family in Paris, Kentucky
• The Caledonian-Record – family-owned and operated by the Smith family in St. Johnsbury, Vermont
• Casa Grande Valley Newspapers Inc. , Casa Grande, Arizona – family-owned and operated by the Kramer family since 1963 ^[1]
• The Chronicle, Centralia, WA — established in 1889, owned by the Taylor family, Chad & Coralee Taylor (CT Publishing LLC)
• The Citizen-Advertiser – TMC publication, family-owned and operated by the Brannnon family in Paris, Kentucky
• The Clayton Record , Clayton, Alabama – family-owned since 1915
• The Columbian , Vancouver, Washington – owned by the Campbell family since 1921
• The Commercial Dispatch , Columbus, Mississippi – family-owned since 1922
• Cortland Standard, Cortland, New York—family-owned since 1876
• The Daily Gazette , Scnenectady, NY-Owned by the Hume family
• The Daily Standard, Celina, Ohio - family-owned since 1848
• Deming Headlight , Deming, New Mexico - family-owned since 2022.
• The Durango Herald, Durango, Colorado – owned by the Ballantine family
• East Oregonian – Oregon and Washington papers, family-owned
• The Elkhart Truth , Elkhart, Indiana – family-owned since 1889
• The Emporia Gazette, Emporia, Kansas — family-owned since 1895
• Grants Pass Daily Courier, Grants Pass, Oregon — owned by the Voorhies family since 1897 ^[2]
• Greenville Journal, Greenville, South Carolina -- family-owned since 1999
• The Hardwick Gazette, Hardwick, Vermont – established 1889
• The Italian Tribune , aka La Tribuna del Popolo , Macomb, Michigan – founded 1909, family-owned since 1909 by the Giuliano-Baker family
• The Journal, Cortez, Colorado – owned by the Ballantine family
• The Keene Sentinel , Keene, New Hampshire – family-owned since 1799 ^{[3] [4]}
• The Lincoln County News, Newcastle, Maine – owned by the Erskine and Roberts Family since 1920
• The Lewiston Tribune, Lewiston, Idaho - owned by the Alford family ^{[5] [6]}
• Kstati Russian-American Newspaper, aka Apropos Kstati , San Francisco, California – founded in 1994, family-owned and operated by the Sundeyev family ^[7]

M - Z

• The Madison Courier , Madison, Indiana – founded 1837, owned since 1849 by the Garber family
• The Marysville Journal-Tribune, Marysville, Ohio – continuously operating as family-owned since 1849 ^[8]
• The Mooreland Leader , Mooreland, Oklahoma – Schnoebelen family-owned since 1903
• News-Register , McMinnville, Oregon – family-owned since 1928
• The Newtown Bee , Newtown, Connecticut – family-owned since 1881
• Press Enterprise , Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania – family-owned since 1902
• Polk County News, Benton, Ducktown, Copperhill TN- local family-owned since 1883
• The Rome Sentinel Company , Rome, New York – started in the 1820s, family-owned since 1864
• The Roswell Daily Record , Roswell, New Mexico – started in 1891, family-owned
• The Rutland Herald, ^[9] Rutland, Vermont – started in 1794, family-owned entire history, Mitchell family since 1947
• The Villages Daily Sun, started in 1997, family owned.
• Silver City Daily Press and Independent , Silver City, New Mexico - family-owned since 1896
• Shaw Media (United States), Dixon, Illinois – established in 1851
• Smith Publishing & Media Group, Walnut, California – family-owned since 2006
• Sonoma West Publishers (Sonoma West Times & News, The Healdsburg Tribune, The Cloverdale Reveille, and the Windsor Times)
• The Southern Star , Ozark, Alabama – family-owned since 1867
• The Spokesman-Review , Spokane, Washington – family-owned and published by the Cowles family since 1894
• Steamboat Pilot & Today , Routt County, Colorado – owned by WorldWest LLC, a family-owned company ^[10] based in Lawrence, Kansas ^[11]
• Sun Journal , Lewiston, Maine – family-owned and published by the Costello family since 1898
• Town Topics , Princeton, New Jersey – family-owned since 1946
• Town Tribune , New Fairfield, Connecticut – family-owned
• Valley India Times – Indo-American newspaper, Dholakia family-owned since 2000
• Weeklys— Formerly Metro Newspapers, established in 1985 in San Jose, California.
• Wick Communications , Sierra Vista, Arizona – Wick family-owned chain of newspapers in 12 states since 1926

References

1. "Newspapers Way of Life for Family Producing Casa Grande Daily". Arizona State University's Cronkite News Service. Archived from the original on 27 July 2010. Retrieved 2 May 2007.
2. http://web.thedailycourier.com/eedition/2010/03/11/Progress/8.pdf ^{[ bare URL PDF ]}
3. "About Us".
4. http://sentinelsource.com/app/resources/sentinel_history.pdf ^{[ bare URL PDF ]}
5. "About Us".
6. "Alford regains ownership of Lewiston Trib; Heir of paper's founders buys it from TCI subsidiary". January 1998.
7. Kstati Russian-American Newspaper
8. "Home". marysvillejt.com.
9. The Rutland Herald
10. Mike Lawrence (May 13, 2011). "CU journalism alums happily report and edit in Steamboat Springs". University of Colorado. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 31 January 2012.
11. "About the Pilot & Today". steamboatpilot.com. Retrieved 31 January 2012.