The Daily Nonpareil

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The Daily Nonpareil
Type Daily newspaper
Owner(s) Lee Enterprises
PublisherThomas Schmitt
Managing editorCourtney Brummer-Clark
News editorMike Brownlee
Director of InteractiveSusan Payne
FoundedMay 2, 1857;166 years ago (1857-05-02)
Headquarters300 West Broadway, Suite 108
Council Bluffs, Iowa 51503
CountryUnited States
Circulation 3,944 Daily(as of 2023) [1]
ISSN 1046-1833
OCLC number 12895103
Website nonpareilonline.com

The Daily Nonpareil is a daily newspaper serving Council Bluffs and a 10-county area of southwest Iowa.

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History

The Daily Nonpareil is southwest Iowa's largest newspaper. [2] It was founded on May 2, 1857. [3]

The paper was acquired in 2011 by Berkshire Hathaway, when it bought the paper's then parent, the Omaha World-Herald and its other subsidiary newspapers in Kearney, Grand Island, York, North Platte, and Scottsbluff, Nebraska. [4] The World-Herald acquired partial ownership in 2000 and full ownership in 2007. [5]

In 2020, Lee Enterprises purchased BH Media Group's newspapers. This purchase included The Daily Nonpareil, the Clarinda Herald-Journal, the Shenandoah Valley News Today, the Logan-Woodbine Twiner, and the Denison Bulletin-Review. On March 16, 2020, Lee officially took over as The Daily Nonpareil's parent company.

Unusually, the paper made a dual-party endorsement in 2016, endorsing both Bernie Sanders and John Kasich, as the best-qualified nominees of the two major parties. [6]

From 1965 to 2000, it was owned by several newspaper chains, [7] including Thomson Newspapers [8] and MediaNews Group. [9]

Starting June 20, 2023, the print edition of the newspaper will be reduced to three days a week: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Also, the newspaper will transition from being delivered by a traditional newspaper delivery carrier to mail delivery by the U.S. Postal Service. [10]

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