List of family-owned newspapers in the United States

The following is a partial list of family-owned newspapers in the United States. It represents the small subset of the list of newspapers in the United States which are run by a family business, and may include exceptions to or examples of concerns about concentration of media ownership.

A - L

• The Adair County Free Press, Greenfield, Iowa – established 1889 by the Sidey family, still in operation
• The Argus-Press, Owosso, Michigan – established 1916
• The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus - Barre Times and Montpelier Argus both est. 1897, merged in 1959, owned by Mitchell family since 1964
• The Bourbon County Citizen - family-owned and operated by the Brannnon family in Paris, Kentucky
• Casa Grande Valley Newspapers Inc., Casa Grande, Arizona – family-owned and operated by the Kramer family since 1963^[1]
• The Chronicle, Centralia, WA — established in 1889, owned by the Lafromboise family (Lafromboise Communications, Inc.)
• The Citizen-Advertiser - TMC publication, family-owned and operated by the Brannnon family in Paris, Kentucky
• The Clayton Record, Clayton, Alabama – family-owned since 1915
• The Columbia Daily Tribune, Columbia, Missouri – family-owned since 1905
• The Columbian, Vancouver, Washington - owned by the Campbell Family
• The Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio – owned by the Wolfe family
• The Durango Herald, Durango, Colorado -- owned by the Ballantine family
• East Oregonian – Oregon and Washington papers, family-owned
• The Elkhart Truth, Elkhart, Indiana - family-owned since 1889
• The Hardwick Gazette, Hardwick, Vermont - established 1889
• The Italian Tribune, aka La Tribuna del Popolo, Macomb, Michigan – founded 1909, family-owned since 1909 by the Giuliano-Baker family
• The Journal, Cortez, Colorado -- owned by the Ballantine family
• Kstati Russian-American Newspaper, aka Apropos Kstati, San Francisco, California - founded in 1994, family-owned and operated by the Sundeyev family^[2]

M - Z

• The Madison Courier, Madison, Indiana – founded 1837, owned since 1849 by the Garber family
• The Marysville Journal-Tribune, Marysville, Ohio - continuously operating as family-owned since 1849 ^[3]
• The Mooreland Leader, Mooreland, Oklahoma - Schnoebelen family-owned since 1903
• News-Register, McMinnville, Oregon – family-owned since 1928
• The Newtown Bee, Newtown, Connecticut – family-owned since 1881
• The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon – family-owned since 1927
• The Rome Sentinel Company, Rome, New York – started in the 1820s, family-owned since 1864
• The Roswell Daily Record, Roswell, New Mexico – started in 1891, family-owned
• The Rutland Herald, Rutland, Vermont - started in 1794, family owned entire history, Mitchell family since 1947
• Shaw Newspapers, Dixon, Illinois – established in 1851
• Smith Publishing & Media Group, Walnut, California – family-owned since 2006
• The Southern Star, Ozark, Alabama – family-owned since 1867
• The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington – family-owned and published by the Cowles family since 1894
• Steamboat Pilot & Today, Routt County, Colorado - owned by WorldWest LLC, a family-owned company^[4] based in Lawrence, Kansas.^[5]
• Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine – family-owned and published by the Costello family since 1898
• Town Topics, Princeton, New Jersey – family-owned since 1946
• Valley India Times - Indo-American newspaper, Dholakia family-owned since 2000
• Wick Communications, Sierra Vista, Arizona – Wick family-owned chain of newspapers in 12 states since 1926

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