Richmond Register
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| Richmond Register | |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. |
| Publisher | Nicholas W. Lewis |
| Editor | Jim Todd |
| Founded | 1917 |
| Headquarters | 380 Big Hill Avenue, Richmond, Kentucky 40475 USA |
| Circulation | 6,874 daily[1] |
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| Website: richmondregister.com | |
The Richmond Register is a seven-day daily newspaper based in Richmond, Kentucky, and covering Madison County. It publishes in the afternoons, Monday through Thursday, and in the mornings on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. The Register is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
In January 2006, the Kentucky Press Association named the Register best newspaper in the state.[2]
[edit] History
As the only surviving daily in Richmond, the Register is heir to a crowded field. The Globe Register debuted November 2, 1809, but lasted only a year before changing its name to The Luminary, which in turn was sold and became The Farmer's Chronicle in 1822. In 1845, the name changed to The Whig Chronicle; and in 1852 it became The Weekly Messenger, the largest circulated newspaper in Kentucky outside Louisville. The paper ended its run in 1862, presumably due to the onset of the American Civil War.[2]
The story of today's Register began in 1917, when S.M. Saufley purchased two Richmond papers, The Climax and The Kentucky Register, and founded The Richmond Daily Register. The Saufley, Johnson and Challinor-Tureman families took turns as owners, publishers and general managers of the paper until 1970, when Frank Helderman Sr. bought it. His wife sold to Thomson Corporation in 1985, and Thomson yielded to American Publishing, part of Hollinger International, in 1995. The Register is now published by CNHI, which bought it in 1999.[2]
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[edit] References
- ^ CNHI-CAN Circulation, figures for an undetermined date, accessed January 19, 2007.
- ^ a b c The Richmond Register: About Us, accessed January 19, 2007.
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