Rushville Republican

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Rushville Republican
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) CNHI
PublisherPete VanBaalen
EditorKevin Green
Founded1840(183 years ago) (1840)
Ceased publicationMay 15, 2020(3 years ago) (2020-05-15)
Headquarters306 North Main Street, Rushville, Indiana 46173 United States
Circulation 3,020(as of February 2006) [1]
Websiterushvillerepublican.com (defunct)

The Rushville Republican was a two-day (Tuesday and Friday) morning daily newspaper serving Rushville, Indiana, and Rush County. It was owned by CNHI. Its publication was discontinued in May 2020, when it was merged with the CNHI's Greensburg Daily News .

History

Having begun publication as the Rushville Whig in 1840, [2] the Republican claims to be the oldest daily still operating in Indiana.

On May 15, 2020, the Republican printed its last edition. [3] It was merged with the Greensburg Daily News , making it one of 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. [4]

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References

  1. "CNHI-CAN Circulation". cnhi-can.com. 2006-02-05. Archived from the original on 2006-02-05. Retrieved 2007-01-18. [Note: Source is undated. Earliest archived copy is February 2006, latest is July 2014. All figures, for every one of the 319 individual newspapers (plus totals for every one of the 27 states), in all 82 archived copies through those nine years... are absurdly identical. Here-using February 2006 as the closest thing to legitimate date.]
  2. Moses, John F. (1914). "The Newspapers of Rush County". Indiana Magazine of History. 10 (1): 53–62. JSTOR   27785611.
  3. Welborn, Laura (also publisher) (2020-05-15). "Rushville Republican merging with Greensburg Daily News". Greensburg Daily News . Archived from the original on 2020-08-15.
  4. Hare, Kristen (2021-12-02). "More than 100 local newsrooms closed during the coronavirus pandemic". Poynter . Archived from the original on 2021-12-02. Retrieved 2023-08-02. Sixteen on this list are from CNHI.