Daily Reporter (Greenfield, Indiana)
The Daily Reporter is an American daily newspaper published Tuesdays through Saturdays in Greenfield, Indiana. It is owned by AIM Media Indiana.
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | AIM Media Indiana |
| Publisher | Richard Clark[1] |
| Editor | Aaron Kennedy |
| Founded | April 27, 1908, as Greenfield Daily Reporter[2] |
| Headquarters | 22 West New Road, Greenfield, Indiana 46140, United States |
| Circulation | 7,900 daily in 2012[3] |
| OCLC number | 12940519 |
| Website | greenfieldreporter.com |
It covers the city of Greenfield and several nearby communities in Hancock County, Indiana. In addition to the daily newspaper, the Daily Reporter produces two weekly newspapers in Hancock County, the Fortville/McCordsville Reporter and the New Palestine Reporter. Home News also owns a third weekly in neighboring Madison County, The Times-Post.
History
The Greenfield Daily Reporter was founded in 1908,[2] although through a merger one year later it also incorporates the history of The Evening Star, founded August 1, 1904.[4]
Robert N. Brown, whose grandfather had started The Republic in Columbus and who himself had founded the Daily Journal in Franklin, both in communities south of Indianapolis, purchased the Greenfield Daily Reporter in 1973, a year after the death of Dorothea Spencer, whose family had started the paper in 1908.[5]
He said at the time that his goals for the newspaper would be "reflecting the total image of a community in news coverage, to serve community betterment, and to provide counsel in its editorials as public conscience."[5]
The newspaper has stayed in the family ever since; its current owner, Home News Enterprises, is a partnership of various Brown family members set up in 1994.[6]
Home News expanded its holdings east of Indianapolis in June 2007, with the purchase of two weeklies in Madison County, the Lapel Post and The Pendleton Times, which it combined into the Times-Post of Pendleton.[7]
In November 2015, Home News Enterprises announced that it was selling the Daily Reporter and its sister newspapers, online and commercial properties to AIM Media Indiana AIM Media Indiana, an affiliate of AIM Media Texas AIM Media Texas.[8] AIM Media continues to be the publisher of the newspaper.
In mid-August 2023, it was announced that the Daily Reporter, along with several of its sister newspapers, would see a reduction of print publication days starting Sept. 2, 2023.[9] The paper will only be printed on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
References
- "Contact Us". The Daily Reporter - Greenfield Indiana. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
- "About Greenfield Daily Reporter". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved June 18, 2012.
- "Freedom Sells Ind. Daily to Home News". NewsInc. January 16, 2012. Archived from the original on April 14, 2016. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
- "About The Evening Star". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved June 18, 2012.
- Williams, Dorothy June; Williams, Thomas E.Q. (1995). A History of Hancock County, Indiana, in the Twentieth Century. Greenfield, Indiana: Coiny Press. pp. 404–409. ISBN 1-887495-01-0. Archived from the original on 2006-11-13. Retrieved 2012-06-19.
- "Mission & History". DailyJournal.net. Archived from the original on August 3, 2012. Retrieved June 15, 2012.
- "Times-Post". HomeNewsEnterprises.com. Archived from the original on May 1, 2012. Retrieved June 15, 2012.
- Colombo, Hayleigh (4 November 2015). "Texas publisher buys chain of Indiana newspapers". Indianapolis Business Journal. Indianapolis Business Journal. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
- Lindquist, Dave (14 August 2023). "Newspapers in Columbus, 3 other regional cities to reduce print publication days". Indianapolis Business Journal. Indianapolis Business Journal. Retrieved 14 August 2023.