Watertown Public Opinion

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Watertown Public Opinion
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet

Owner United Communications Corporation
Publisher Mark S. Roby
Editor Jerry Steinley
Founded March 27, 1887
Price USD .50 daily
Headquarters 120 Third Avenue NW, Watertown, South Dakota 57201 USA

Website: thepublicopinion.com

The Watertown Public Opinion is a six-day daily newspaper published in Watertown, South Dakota, USA, serving eastern South Dakota and western Minnesota. It publishes in the afternoon, Monday through Friday, and a weekend edition on Saturday morning.

The fourth largest newspaper in South Dakota, it has been owned since 2002 by United Communications Corporation of Kenosha, Wisconsin.

[edit] History

Founded two years before South Dakota statehood, the Public Opinion in its first 110 years had a succession of local owners, including Stitzel X. Way, whose family ran it for 94 years before selling to UCC March 1, 2002.

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