Stuttgart Daily Leader
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{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Stuttgart Daily Leader
| image =
| caption =
| type = Local news website
| format =
| foundation = 1885
| ceased publication = 2019 (print newspaper)
| owners = Arkansas County Broadcasters, Inc.
| publisher = Bobby Caldwell
| editor = Kristen Siler
| circulation =
| headquarters = Stuttgart, Arkansas
| ISSN =
| website = {{URL|stuttgartdailyleader.com}}
}}
The Stuttgart Daily Leader is a local news website covering Stuttgart, in southeast Arkansas.
History
The website's roots are in the community's print newspaper founded in 1885. It is owned by East Arkansas Broadcasters, via its Arkansas County Broadcasters division, having acquired the newspaper assets from former owner GateHouse Media in September 2019,{{Cite web|url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/180569/east-arkansas-broadcasters-expands-into-publishing/|title=East Arkansas Broadcasters Expands Into Publishing|last=Venta|first=Lance|date=2019-09-17|website=RadioInsight|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-15}} in advance of GateHouse's November 2019 merger with Gannett. GateHouse ceased its publication of the newspaper on September 6, as negotiations for the sale to new ownership were pending.{{Cite web|url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/sep/07/firm-s-friday-paper-is-its-last-2019090/|title=Firm's Friday paper is its last; Stuttgart Leader sale still possible|last=Steed|first=Stephen|date=2019-09-07|website=Arkansas Democrat-Gazette|language=en|access-date=2020-04-15}} The Leader
Liberty Group Publishing, an earlier incarnation of GateHouse, acquired the paper from Hollinger in 1997.{{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}} The Leader primarily focuses on city news, although it also covers Arkansas County news as well. Stuttgart, a predominantly agricultural community and major center of Arkansas's rice growing industry, is located on the Grand Prairie in northern Arkansas County. It began as a colony of German immigrants,{{Cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=820|title = Encyclopedia of Arkansas}} and is one of two county seats in Arkansas County alongside DeWitt.
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