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Morning newspaper
The Daily Independent
(also known as
The Independent Weekend Edition
and formerly known as
The Independent
from 2003 to 2015) is a morning
newspaper
covering the city of
Ashland
and surrounding areas of
Boyd County, Kentucky
. Previously published daily, the print schedule was reduced to five days a week (Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays as a "Weekend Edition") in April 2020. It is owned by
CNHI
. It does not publish on Christmas Day.
Launched December 17, 1896 as the
Tri-State Independent
Col. G. F. Friel of nearby
Catlettsburg, Kentucky
,
[1]
the newspaper moved to 12th Street and Greenup Avenue in Ashland in 1900 as the
Ashland Daily Independent
; it absorbed the
Ashland Commercial
in the move. The first publication after the move was on December 17.
[1]
The offices later relocated to 17th Street two years later, when it purchased the
Ashland Daily News
and discontinued it in that year. In 1920, it founded the
Sunday Independent
, and five years later, it doubled the size of its headquarters on 17th Street.
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.
[2]
However, as of 2015, the newspaper brought back "The Daily Independent" and "The Sunday Independent" namesake, following a redesign. "The Sunday Independent" namesake was dropped again in April 2020, following the shift to printing a "Weekend Edition" on Saturdays.
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]
The circulation in 1920 was 3,500 but increased to 17,000 by 1954 and peaked at 25,000 in 1980.
[3]
References
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a
b
"A history of Ashland, Kentucky, 1786?1954." Ashland Centennial Committee. 1954. 2 January 2007.
- ^
a
b
Daily Independent: About Us
, accessed January 19, 2007.
- ^
"A history of Ashland, Kentucky, 1854?2004." Ashland Bicentennial Committee. 2004. 2 January 2007.
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