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This is a list of newspapers in Iowa. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008) Daily newspapers. City or metropolitan
The first newspaper in Des Moines was the Iowa Star. In July 1849, Barlow Granger began the paper in an abandoned log cabin by the junction of the Des Moines and Raccoon River. [3] In 1854, The Star became the Iowa Statesman which was also a Democratic paper. In 1857, The Statesman became the Iowa State Journal, which published three times per ...
The Traer Clipper was founded in 1874 and the Traer Star was founded in 1878. The two papers merged in 1883 to form the Traer Star-Clipper. [1] In May 2024, Ogden Newspapers merged the paper with the Dysart Reporter, founded in 1878, to form the North Tama Telegraph.
The Eldora Ledger was founded in 1866 by Robert "Bob" McBride. The paper was established shortly after Eldora lost its prior paper, the Hardin County Sentinel, to the city of Iowa Falls, Iowa; as the publisher of the Sentinel, M. C. Woodruff, had lost faith in the future prospects of Eldora due to its then lack of railroad transportation.
The Daily Iowan – the student newspaper of the University of Iowa – has purchased two local weekly newspapers, the Mount Vernon Lisbon Sun and the Solon Economist. 2 small Iowa towns faced ...
The Iowa City Press-Citizen is a daily newspaper published in Iowa City, Iowa, United States that serves most of Johnson County and portions of surrounding counties. Its primary competitors are The Gazette of Cedar Rapids, which has a news bureau in Iowa City, and The Daily Iowan, the University of Iowa's student newspaper.
A rival newspaper, the Iowa Patriot, was moved in 1838 from Fort Madison to Burlington by James G. Edwards. Edwards was a supporter of the Whig Party. At Rorer's urging, Edwards changed the name of his paper to the Burlington Hawk-Eye and Iowa Patriot in tribute to Chief Black Hawk. Black Hawk was a friend of Edwards and reportedly was present ...
The Boone News-Republican is a newspaper in Boone, Iowa, United States. [2] It was established in 1907 as a result of a merger between the Boone Daily News and the Weekly Republican. [2] [3] It is owned by Gannett. Former owner Stephens Media sold its newspapers to GateHouse Media in 2015. [4]