Abilene Reporter-News

Abilene Reporter-News
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
OwnerUSA Today Co.
PublisherNathan Grimm
EditorGreg Jaklewicz
Founded1881
Headquarters101 Cypress Street
Abilene, TX 79601
United States
Circulation3,101 (as of 2023)[1]
ISSN0199-3267
OCLC number3967993
Websitereporternews.com
Free online archivestexashistory.unt.edu/explore/titles/t03563/ (1937–1975)

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.[2]

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.[3]

The E. W. Scripps Company bought the newspaper, along with other Texas-based Harte-Hanks papers, in 1997.[4] The company spun off its newspaper assets into Journal Media Group in April 2015,[5] which was sold to Gannett in 2016.[6][7]

References

  1. ^ "2023 Texas Newspaper Directory". Texas Press Association. Archived from the original on May 3, 2023. Retrieved May 3, 2023.
  2. ^ "The Emergence of Harte-Hanks". Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved January 24, 2007.
  3. ^ Kincaid, Naomi Hatton. "Abilene Reporter-News". Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved July 5, 2012.
  4. ^ "Scripps to Acquire Harte-Hanks Outlets". Los Angeles Times. Associated Press. May 20, 1997. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved October 14, 2013. Scripps to Acquire Harte-Hanks Outlets
  5. ^ Gores, Paul (April 1, 2015). "Journal, Scripps merger creates two closely aligned media companies". Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Retrieved April 3, 2015.
  6. ^ "Gannett Completes Acquisition of Journal Media Group". USA Today. Gannett (now USA Today Co.). April 11, 2016. ISSN 0734-7456. OCLC 8799626. Archived from the original on April 11, 2016. Retrieved February 7, 2026.
  7. ^ "Gannett closes on $280 million purchase of Journal Media Group". Treasure Coast Newspapers. USA Today Co. April 11, 2016. Retrieved February 7, 2026.



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