List of family-owned newspapers in the United States

Summary

The following is a partial list of family-owned newspapers in the United States. It represents the small subset of the list of newspapers in the United States which are run by a family business, and may include exceptions to or examples of concerns about concentration of media ownership.

A - L edit

  • The Adair County Free Press, Greenfield, Iowa – established 1889 by the Sidey family, still in operation
  • The Argus-Press, Owosso, Michigan – established 1916
  • The Bangor Daily News, Bangor, Maine – family-owned since 1889
  • The Barre-Montpelier Times ArgusBarre Times and Montpelier Argus, both est. 1897, merged in 1959, owned by Mitchell family since 1964
  • The Bourbon County Citizen – family-owned and operated by the Brannnon family in Paris, Kentucky
  • The Caledonian-Record – family-owned and operated by the Smith family in St. Johnsbury, Vermont
  • Casa Grande Valley Newspapers Inc., Casa Grande, Arizona – family-owned and operated by the Kramer family since 1963[1]
  • The Chronicle, Centralia, WA — established in 1889, owned by the Taylor family, Chad & Coralee Taylor (CT Publishing LLC)
  • The Citizen-Advertiser – TMC publication, family-owned and operated by the Brannnon family in Paris, Kentucky
  • The Clayton Record, Clayton, Alabama – family-owned since 1915
  • The Columbian, Vancouver, Washington – owned by the Campbell family since 1921
  • The Commercial Dispatch, Columbus, Mississippi – family-owned since 1922
  • Cortland Standard, Cortland, New York—family-owned since 1876
  • The Daily Gazette, Scnenectady, NY-Owned by the Hume family
  • The Daily Standard, Celina, Ohio - family-owned since 1848
  • The Durango Herald, Durango, Colorado – owned by the Ballantine family
  • East Oregonian – Oregon and Washington papers, family-owned
  • The Elkhart Truth, Elkhart, Indiana – family-owned since 1889
  • ’’The Emporia Gazette’’ Emporia, Kansas — family-owned since 1895
  • Grants Pass Daily Courier, Grants Pass, Oregon — owned by the Voorhies family since 1897 [2]
  • Greenville Journal, Greenville, South Carolina -- family-owned since 1999
  • The Hardwick Gazette, Hardwick, Vermont – established 1889
  • The Italian Tribune, aka La Tribuna del Popolo, Macomb, Michigan – founded 1909, family-owned since 1909 by the Giuliano-Baker family
  • The Journal, Cortez, Colorado – owned by the Ballantine family
  • The Keene Sentinel, Keene, New Hampshire – family-owned since 1799[3][4]
  • The Lincoln County News, Newcastle, Maine – owned by the Erskine and Roberts Family since 1920
  • The Lewiston Tribune, Lewiston, Idaho - owned by the Alford family [5][6]
  • Kstati Russian-American Newspaper, aka Apropos Kstati, San Francisco, California – founded in 1994, family-owned and operated by the Sundeyev family[7]

M - Z edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Newspapers Way of Life for Family Producing Casa Grande Daily". Arizona State University's Cronkite News Service. Archived from the original on 27 July 2010. Retrieved 2 May 2007.
  2. ^ http://web.thedailycourier.com/eedition/2010/03/11/Progress/8.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  3. ^ "About Us".
  4. ^ http://sentinelsource.com/app/resources/sentinel_history.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  5. ^ "About Us".
  6. ^ "Alford regains ownership of Lewiston Trib; Heir of paper's founders buys it from TCI subsidiary". January 1998.
  7. ^ Kstati Russian-American Newspaper
  8. ^ "Home". marysvillejt.com.
  9. ^ The Rutland Herald
  10. ^ Mike Lawrence (May 13, 2011). "CU journalism alums happily report and edit in Steamboat Springs". University of Colorado. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 31 January 2012.
  11. ^ "About the Pilot & Today". steamboatpilot.com. Retrieved 31 January 2012.