Abilene Reporter-News
{{Short description|Daily newspaper in Abilene, Texas}}
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{{Infobox Newspaper
| logo = Abilene Reporter-News (2019-10-31).svg
| name = Abilene Reporter-News
| type = Daily newspaper
| format = Broadsheet
| foundation = 1881
| owners = Gannett
| headquarters = 101 Cypress Street
Abilene, TX 79601
United States
| circulation = 4,499
| circulation_date = 2023
| editor = Greg Jaklewicz
| publisher = Nathan Grimm
| website = [http://reporternews.com/ reporternews.com]|
}}
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Abilene Reporter-News is a daily newspaper based in Abilene, Texas, United States. The newspaper started publishing as the weekly Abilene Reporter, helmed by Charles Edwin Gilbert, on June 17, 1881, just three months after Abilene was founded. It is hence the oldest continuous business in the city. It became a daily newspaper in 1885.
History
The newspaper, owned in the early 1920s by Bernard Hanks, became one of the two original flagships of the Harte-Hanks newspaper chain in 1924.[http://www.texnews.com/arn/harte.html Abilene Reporter News: About Us] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927015149/http://www.texnews.com/arn/harte.html |date=September 27, 2007 }}, accessed January 24, 2007.
In 1937, the company merged its morning paper, The Morning News, with the afternoon Daily Reporter to form the Abilene Reporter-News. The newspaper published morning and evening editions into the 1950s.{{cite web|access-date=2012-07-05|url= https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eea01|title=Abilene Reporter-News|author=Kincaid, Naomi Hatton|work=Handbook of Texas Online}}
The E. W. Scripps Company bought the newspaper, along with other Texas-based Harte-Hanks papers, in 1997.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-05-20-fi-60697-story.html |title=Scripps to Acquire Harte-Hanks Outlets - latimes |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=2013-10-14 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305222235/http://articles.latimes.com/1997-05-20/business/fi-60697_1_e-w-scripps |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |df=mdy }} Scripps to Acquire Harte-Hanks Outlets The company spun off its newspaper assets into Journal Media Group in April 2015,{{cite news|last1=Gores|first1=Paul|title=Journal, Scripps merger creates two closely aligned media companies|url=http://www.jsonline.com/business/journal-scripps-merger-creates-two-closely-aligned-media-companies-b99472706z1-298243741.html|access-date=3 April 2015|work=Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel|date=1 April 2015}} which was sold to Gannett in 2016.
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://reporternews.com}}
- [https://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/titles/t03563/ Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Texas) 1937-current] hosted by the [http://texashistory.unt.edu/ Portal to Texas History].
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Category:Daily newspapers published in Texas
Category:Mass media in Abilene, Texas
Category:Newspapers established in 1881
Category:1881 establishments in Texas
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