Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Gannett |
Publisher | Cindy Conrad |
Editor | Joe Shaheen |
Founded | July 3, 1863 , as Massillon Independent [1] |
Headquarters | 50 North Avenue, Northwest, Massillon, Ohio 44648, United States |
Circulation | 9,727 daily in 2012 [2] |
Sister newspapers | The Repository The Suburbanite The Times-Reporter |
OCLC number | 11129683 |
Website | IndeOnline.com |
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GateHouse acquired the paper from Copley Newspapers in April 2007. [3]
The Independent is related to three other Northeast Ohio newspapers, the dailies The Repository of Canton and The Times-Reporter of New Philadelphia, and the weekly The Suburbanite in southern Summit County.
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