The Independent (Ashland)
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| The Independent | |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. |
| Publisher | Eddie Blakely |
| Editor | Mike Reliford |
| Founded | December 17, 1896 |
| Price | USD .50 daily, 1.50 Sunday |
| Headquarters | 224 17th Street, Ashland, Kentucky 41101 USA |
| Circulation | 19,220 daily[1] |
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| Website: dailyindependent.com | |
The Independent (formerly known as The Daily Independent and The Sunday Independent) is a seven-day morning daily newspaper covering the city of Ashland and surrounding areas of Boyd County, Kentucky. It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
Launched December 17, 1896, as the Tri-State Independent of nearby Catlettsburg, Kentucky, the newspaper moved to Ashland in 1900 as the Ashland Daily Independent, absorbing the Ashland Daily News and Ashland Commercial along the way. After years of publishing in the afternoon on weekdays (and morning on weekends), The Independent switched to all-morning publication in May 2003, and dropped the "Daily" and "Sunday" from its nameplate. The newspaper's Website, however, retains the old name as part of its URL, dailyindependent.com.[2]
Colonel B.F. Forgey, an Ohio native who bought half an interest in the paper in 1910, is credited with guiding the paper's growth until his death in 1952. The newspaper continued to be privately owned until Ottaway Community Newspapers bought it in 1979, selling it to CNHI in 2002.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ CNHI-CAN Circulation, figures for an undetermined date, accessed January 19, 2007.
- ^ a b Daily Independent: About Us, accessed January 19, 2007.
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