Ottumwa Courier

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Ottumwa Courier
Southeast Iowa's Best Newspaper
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Ottumwa Courier Building
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) CNHI
PublisherKyle Ocker [1]
EditorKyle Ocker [2]
Associate editorDonald Promnitz [3]
FoundedAugust 8, 1848
Headquarters213 East Second Street, Ottumwa, Iowa 52501 United States
CityOttumwa, Iowa
Circulation 4,451(as of April 2023) [4]
Sister newspapersIowa:
Website www.ottumwacourier.com OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Free online archives https://ottumwa.advantage-preservation.com

The Ottumwa Courier (formerly called Ottumwa Daily Courier) is a two-day (Tuesday and Saturday) newspaper published in Ottumwa, Iowa, United States, and covering Wapello County, Iowa and surrounding counties. It is owned by CNHI. The newspaper's front page bills itself "Southeast Iowa's Best Newspaper."

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History

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]

In March 2025, the newspaper announced it would be eliminating its Thursday publication citing rising costs associated with producing and delivering a print publication. [7]

References

  1. ↑ Ocker promoted to publisher of Ottumwa Courier, Oskaloosa Herald, accessed June 3, 2025.
  2. ↑ Ottumwa Courier staff directory, accessed November 24, 2022.
  3. ↑ Ottumwa Courier staff directory, accessed November 24, 2022.
  4. ↑ "Find Iowa Newspaper". Iowa Newspaper Association. Retrieved April 10, 2023.
  5. ↑ Ottumwa.com: About Us, accessed January 17, 2007.
  6. ↑ Hare, Kristen (December 2, 2021). "More than 100 local newsrooms closed during the coronavirus pandemic". Poynter . Archived from the original on December 2, 2021. Retrieved August 2, 2023. Sixteen on this list are from CNHI.
  7. ↑ "Courier to reduce print publication frequency in March". Ottumwa Courier. February 22, 2025. Retrieved June 3, 2025.


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