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The Fremont Tribune of Fremont, Nebraska has been publishing to the eastern portion of the state since 1868, according to its website. Its first editor was J.N. Hayes, who also published the paper in his own name for two years until he regained the…

The Madisonian is located in the heart of Ennis, Montana and has printed weekly since 1873. The paper covers all of Madison County, Montana and is considered to be a “hyper-local paper,” according to its editor, Abigail Dennis, which means that the…

The Hannibal-Courier Post is located in Hannibal, Missouri and has printed daily since 1853. Records from the Library of Congress show that the Post originated from several weekly newspapers founded in and around Hannibal, including the Hannibal…

The newspaper has started in 1837 named as The Eastern Clarion. According to its website, “after the Civil War, it was moved to Jackson and merged with The Standard and soon became known as The Clarion. Combining with the State Ledger in 1888, it…

The paper founded in 1849 serves the Twin Cities’ East Metro region and Western Wisconsin. According to the paper, it is also available at more than 1,300 West Metro and Minneapolis locations. It has winned three Pulitzer Prizes. The Pioneer Press…

The actual Detroit Free Press is the first daily newspaper in Michigan. It was founded in 1831 as The Democratic Free Press and Michigan Intelligencer. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, it “was one of the first American newspapers to publish…

Founded in 1786, the Daily Hampshire Gazette claims to be “The Pioneer Valley's comprehensive source for news about Hampshire and southern Franklin counties”. Besides the local news, the paper also covers “sports, arts and entertainment and lifestyle…

In circulation since 1824, The Advertiser Democrat serves “18 towns in the Greater Oxford Hills region of western Maine”, according to its website. It is a weekly newspaper published every Thursday from its editorial/advertising offices in Norway,…

According to the Historical New Orleans website, the Times-Picayune, began a “new era in Southern journalism”. It was sold for a picayune, “the Anglicized form of picaillon”. Picayune was the word used in New Orleans for their “smaller current coin,…

According to its website, “The Kentucky Gazette is considered the first newspaper published in the United States west of the Allegheny Mountains and was established to support Kentucky’s break from Virginia to form the young nation’s 15th state in…

The Oskaloosa Independent was founded as the independent, in 1860 by the editor John W. Roberts. According to the Kansas Genealogy website, “Mr. Roberts was strongly abolitionist, and seeing an opportunity for being of greater influence to that…

The Hawk-Eye was originated by the unification of two newspapers, The Hawk-Eye and Iowa Patriot, in 1939. At this time, it was called the Hawk Eye Gazette, and the name was a tribute to Chief Black Hawk, a friend of one of the owners of the…

After a fire, several name and owner changes, the oldest newspaper in the state is the actual Vincennes Sun-Commercial. His first antecedent was the Indiana Gazette, founded in 1804 by Elihu Stout. In 1879, it acquired the name of Vincennes Sun, and…

The State Journal-Register is a daily newspaper and it was founded in 1831. According to the website kentupa.net, a media industry resource, “is the only local daily newspaper for Springfield, Illinois and its surrounding area”. The original name of…

According to the newspaper’s website,  The Idaho World is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Idaho since it has been publishing in Boise County since 1863.  It is a community newspaper that publishes weekly and features news from each of…

Based on the newspaper’s website, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser  started its first publication in 2010 after the 128-year-old Honolulu Star Bulletin and the 154-year-old Honolulu Advertiser merged together.  Even though the newspaper changed its…

According to the newspaper’s website, The Union-Recorder is Georgia’s oldest continuously published newspaper.  It started its publication on account of the 1872 alliance of the two Milledgeville newspapers, the Federal Union, which was founded in…

According to the newspaper’s website, The Florida Times-Union published its first newspaper on February 4, 1883.  However, it was actually in publication 18 years before that.    Newspaper publication in Jacksonville, Florida goes back to the…

According to the newspaper’s website, the lineage of The News Journal commences back to October 1, 1866, when Howard M. Jenkins and Wilmer Atkinson started publishing the first edition of the Daily Commercial.  Then in 1877, a rival newspaper started…

According to the newspaper’s website, The Hartford Courant is not only the oldest continuously published newspaper of the state, but rather it is older than the United States of America.  It began its publication as a weekly newspaper in 1764 by a…

Based on the newspaper’s website, The Pueblo Chieftain was founded in 1868 by Dr. Michael Beshoar, who was the first medical doctor in Trinidad, Colorado. Presently, The Pueblo Chieftain publishes newspapers seven days a week, 365 days a year. It…

According to the newspaper’s website, the Mountain Democrat is located in Placerville, California and is the oldest continuously published newspaper in California since 1851 and was founded by Dan Gelwicks.  It includes news, sports, and features in…

According to the newspaper’s website, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette started out as the Arkansas Gazette in 1819 when Arkansas was not yet a state and it was founded by William E. Woodruff.  Then, Woodruff founded the Arkansas Democrat and it started…

According to the newspaper’s website, The Arizona Daily Star started its publication 1877 under the name The Daily Bulletin and it has been publishing newspapers everyday since June 26, 1879. When it began the newspaper was solely a mechanism for the…

According to the newspaper's website, The Nome Nugget is the oldest newspaper in Alaska. It was established in 1897 and it still supplies northwestern Alaska and it is also provided for everyone on the Internet. Moreover, according to the newspaper’s…