The Daily Independent (Ashland newspaper)

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The Daily Independent
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) CNHI
PublisherPatricia Bennett
EditorAaron Snyder
FoundedDecember 17, 1896
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters224 17th Street
Ashland, Kentucky 41101 United States
Circulation 11,000 Daily
Website dailyindependent.com

The Daily Independent (also known as The Independent Weekend Edition and formerly known as The Independent from 2003 to 2015) is a morning newspaper covering the city of Ashland and surrounding areas of Boyd County, Kentucky. Previously published daily, the print schedule was reduced to five days a week (Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays as a "Weekend Edition") in April 2020. It is owned by CNHI. It does not publish on Christmas Day.

Launched December 17, 1896 as the Tri-State Independent Col. G. F. Friel of nearby Catlettsburg, Kentucky, [1] the newspaper moved to 12th Street and Greenup Avenue in Ashland in 1900 as the Ashland Daily Independent; it absorbed the Ashland Commercial in the move. The first publication after the move was on December 17. [1] The offices later relocated to 17th Street two years later, when it purchased the Ashland Daily News and discontinued it in that year. In 1920, it founded the Sunday Independent, and five years later, it doubled the size of its headquarters on 17th Street.

After years of publishing in the afternoon on weekdays (and morning on weekends), The Independent switched to all-morning publication in May 2003, and dropped the "Daily" and "Sunday" from its nameplate. The newspaper's Website, however, retains the old name as part of its URL. [2] However, as of 2015, the newspaper brought back "The Daily Independent" and "The Sunday Independent" namesake, following a redesign. "The Sunday Independent" namesake was dropped again in April 2020, following the shift to printing a "Weekend Edition" on Saturdays.

Colonel B.F. Forgey, an Ohio native who bought half an interest in the paper in 1910, is credited with guiding the paper's growth until his death in 1952. The newspaper continued to be privately owned until Ottaway Community Newspapers bought it in 1979, selling it to CNHI in 2002. [2] The circulation in 1920 was 3,500 but increased to 17,000 by 1954 and peaked at 25,000 in 1980. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "A history of Ashland, Kentucky, 1786–1954." Ashland Centennial Committee. 1954. 2 January 2007.
  2. 1 2 Daily Independent: About Us, accessed January 19, 2007.
  3. ↑ "A history of Ashland, Kentucky, 1854–2004." Ashland Bicentennial Committee. 2004. 2 January 2007.
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