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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Gannett |
Founded | March 27, 1887 |
Language | English |
Headquarters | 120 Third Avenue NW, Watertown, South Dakota 57201 United States |
Circulation | 9,336(as of 2015) [1] |
Website | thepublicopinion.com |
The Watertown Public Opinion is a newspaper published in Watertown, South Dakota, United States, serving eastern South Dakota and western Minnesota. It is fourth largest newspaper in South Dakota and publishes in the afternoon, Tuesday through Friday. [2]
The Watertown Public Opinion was founded in 1887, two years before South Dakota statehood. [3] The Public Opinion in its first 110 years had a succession of local owners, including Stitzel X. Way, [4] whose family ran it for 94 years before selling to Kenosha, Wisconsin-based United Communications Corporation (UCC) on March 1, 2002. [5]
In 2016, it was sold by United Communications to Schurz Communications out of South Bend, IN. [6] It was sold again in 2019 to GateHouse Media. [7]