Ogden Newspapers

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Ogden Newspapers Inc.
TypePrivate
Industry Newspapers, Magazines, Yellow Pages
Founded1890
Headquarters Wheeling, West Virginia
Key people
Robert Nutting, CEO and President
Duane D. Wittman, CFO
Bill Nutting, VP
Products54 daily newspapers
81 weekly newspapers, shoppers, and magazines
Number of employees
3,500 [1]
Website Ogden Newspapers Inc website

Ogden Newspapers Inc. is a Wheeling, West Virginia based publisher of daily and weekly newspapers, magazines, telephone directories, and shoppers guides.

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History

The company was founded by H.C. Ogden in 1890, and is currently run by the family of his grandson, G. Ogden Nutting. Current CEO Robert Nutting, son of G. Ogden Nutting, is the fourth generation of the Ogden-Nutting family to run the company, and is also principal owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates. [2] [3] It has operations in California, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia, serving mostly small markets, such as Cape Coral, Florida, Fort Wayne, Indiana and Lawrence, Kansas. [4]

In October 1984, two conservative Ogden newspapers (The Intelligencer and The Evening Journal) dropped the Doonesbury comic strip because they objected to Doonesbury's coverage of Ronald Reagan. [5]

On January 30, 2018, it emerged that the company was the apparent high bid to purchase the bankrupt Charleston Gazette-Mail [6] It withdrew the bid on March 8, 2018. [7]

On January 1, 2022, Ogden Newspapers took over Swift Communications, which has publications in Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California. [8]

Magazines

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Newspapers [10]

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Colorado

Florida

Hawaii

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Maryland

Michigan

Minnesota

New Hampshire

New York

North Dakota

Ohio

Pennsylvania

Utah

Virginia

West Virginia

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