Southeast Iowa's Best Newspaper | |
Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | CNHI |
Editor | Kyle Ocker [1] |
Associate editor | Donald Promnitz [2] |
General manager | Kyle Ocker [3] |
Founded | August 8, 1848 |
Headquarters | 213 East Second Street, Ottumwa, Iowa 52501 United States |
City | Ottumwa, Iowa |
Circulation | 4,451(as of April 2023) [4] |
Sister newspapers | Iowa: |
Website | www |
Free online archives | https://ottumwa.advantage-preservation.com |
The Ottumwa Courier (formerly called Ottumwa Daily Courier) is a three-day (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday) newspaper published in Ottumwa, Iowa, United States, and covering Wapello County, Iowa. It also publishes digital-only editions on Wednesdays and Fridays. It is owned by CNHI. The newspaper's front page bills itself "Southeast Iowa's Best Newspaper."
Publishing since 1848, and as a daily newspaper from 1865 to 2020, the Courier is Ottumwa's oldest business. In 1890, it was the original flagship of A.W. Lee's media company, later called Lee Enterprises. The company sold the Courier to Liberty Publishing Group in 1999; two years later, Liberty sold it to CNHI, which has owned it since then. [5]
In May 2020, the CNHI newspaper Daily Iowegian was discontinued and merged with Ottumwa Courier; this was one of the 16 publications shut down by owner CNHI due to business losses associated with the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. [6]
Ottumwa is a city in and the county seat of Wapello County, Iowa, United States. The population was 25,529 at the time of the 2020 U.S. Census. Located in the state's southeastern section, the city is split into northern and southern halves by the Des Moines River.
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The Buffalo News is the daily newspaper of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area, located in downtown Buffalo, New York.
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The Free Press is an American, English language daily newspaper published in Mankato, Minnesota.
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The Daily Iowegian was a two-day newspaper published in Centerville, Iowa and covering Appanoose and Wayne counties in Iowa and Putnam county in Missouri. It was owned by CNHI, LLC
The Oskaloosa Herald is a semi-weekly newspaper published in Oskaloosa, Iowa, and covering Mahaska County, Iowa and Marion County, Iowa. The newspaper publishes semi-weekly on Tuesday and Friday, and also publishes the Oskaloosa Shopper. It is owned by CNHI.
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The Times-Tribune is a six-day morning daily newspaper based in Corbin, Kentucky, and covering Knox, Laurel and Whitley counties in that state. It is owned by CNHI. Founded June 17, 1882, as the weekly Corbin Enterprise, the newspaper took on the names Corbin Daily Tribune and Sunday Times when it began daily publication. Held by a succession of local owners for 100 years—Dan T. Chestnut, T.L. Metcalfe, the Price family, Fred Novels and John L. Crawford—the newspaper was sold to the Thomson Corporation in 1982 by James Crawford and J. Springer Robinson, who had owned it since 1930. American Publishing bought it from Thomson in 1994, dealing it to the current owner, CNHI, in 1999. The newsroom staff are listed — Editor Erin Cox; Sports Reporter Les Dixon; Nighttime editor Brad Hall; Reporters Jarrod Mills and Emily Adams-Bentley.
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The Laurel Leader-Call is a thrice-weekly newspaper published Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays in Laurel, Mississippi, United States, covering Jones County. It is owned by Gin Creek Publishing, which purchased the name and subscriber list from CNHI in April 2012. Gin Creek Publishing is owned by businessman Jim Cegielski, who is also the Leader-Call's publisher.
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Sixteen on this list are from CNHI.