Midland Daily News
The Midland Daily News is a daily newspaper which serves Midland County, Michigan. The offices for the paper are located at 219 East Main Street in downtown Midland, the paper is widely circulated around Midland County.
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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Hearst Corporation |
Editor | Kate Hessling |
Founded | 1937 |
Headquarters | Midland, Michigan, U.S. |
Circulation | 11,439 Weekday 11,855 Saturday 14,723 Sunday[1] |
Website | www.ourmidland.com |
The newspaper also prints the school newspaper for Herbert Henry Dow High School, The Update. The Daily News is the last daily newspaper in the Tri-Cities left with a regular print schedule, since the Bay City Times and Saginaw News cut back their print editions to three times a week in June 2009. It publishes 6 days a week, with a weekend edition.
History
The paper can trace its lineage to the 1858 founding of the Midland Sentinel, which after a number of ownership and name changes became the Midland Republican in 1881. In 1937, Republican publisher Philip T. Rich founded the Midland Daily News as a successor to the weekly Republican.[2] In 1968, Rich sold the paper to Decatur, Illinois-based Lindsay-Schaub Newspapers. In 1979, Lee Enterprises purchased the Daily News along with other Lindsay-Schaub papers, then immediately resold the paper to the Hearst Corporation.[2]
Awards
- AP News Member of the Year (from Michigan Associated Press)
- Best Circulation Promotion (from The Newspaper Association of America)
- Best Local Advertising Campaign (from The Newspaper Association of America)
References
- "Audit Bureau of Circulations, Circulation averages for the six months ended: 3/31/2012". Archived from the original on 2012-10-27. Retrieved 2012-09-20.
- "Midland Daily News through the years". Midland Daily News. May 1, 2012.