Fort Morgan Times
{{Short description|Daily newspaper in Fort Morgan, Colorado}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Fort Morgan Times
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| type = Daily newspaper
| format = Broadsheet
| foundation = 1884
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| owners = Prairie Mountain Publishing (MediaNews Group)
| founder = Lyman C. Baker and George W. Warne
| publisher = Brian Porter
| editor = Sara Waite
| language = English
| circulation =
| headquarters = 329 Main Street
Fort Morgan, CO 80701
United States
| ISSN =
| website = {{URL|fortmorgantimes.com}}
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The Fort Morgan Times is a daily newspaper in Fort Morgan, Colorado. It has been published by Prairie Mountain Publishing, a unit of MediaNews Group, since 1996, when it was acquired by Hollinger.{{cite book |editor1-last=Roberts |editor1-first= Gene |editor1-link=Gene Roberts (journalist) |editor2-last=Kunkel |editor2-first=Thomas |editor3-last= Layton |editor3-first=Charles |date=2001 |title=Leaving Readers Behind: The Age of Corporate Newspapering |url=https://archive.org/details/leavingreadersbe00robe|url-access=registration |location=Fayetteville |publisher=University of Arkansas Press |isbn= 1610752325}}
History
The Fort Morgan Times was established as a weekly newspaper in September 1884 by Lyman C. Baker and George W. Warner.{{Cite book |title=One Hundred Eleven Trees |collaboration=The Memorial Tree Planting Committee of the Fort Morgan Heritage Foundation, Inc. |publisher=A.B. Hirschfeld Press |year=1976 |editor-last=Rickel |editor-first=Wesley Kellogg |location=Denver, CO |pages=55}}
In July 2024, the newspaper announced it will publish its final edition on July 27 and be replaced by a weekly paper called The Morgan County Times.{{Cite web |last=Waite |first=Sara |date=2024-07-22 |title=From the Publisher: Our next evolution |url=https://www.fortmorgantimes.com/2024/07/22/from-the-publisher-our-next-evolution/ |access-date=2024-07-22 |website=The Fort Morgan Times |language=en-US}}
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External links
- [http://www.fortmorganchamber.org Fort Morgan Chamber of Commerce website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190916113404/http://www.fortmorganchamber.org/ |date=2019-09-16 }}
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Category:Newspapers published in Colorado
Category:Morgan County, Colorado
Category:Daily newspapers published in the United States
Category:Newspapers established in 1884
Category:1884 establishments in Colorado
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