Stuttgart Daily Leader

The Stuttgart Daily Leader is a newspaper published in Stuttgart, in southeast Arkansas. It is owned by East Arkansas Broadcasters, via its Arkansas County Broadcasters division, having acquired the newspaper from former owner GateHouse Media in September 2019[1], in advance of GateHouse's November 2019 merger with Gannett. GateHouse ceased its publication of the newspaper on September 6, as negotiations for the sale to new ownership were pending.[2] The Leader's current ownership is shared with KWAK (AM), Stuttgart's first radio station, among other stations in the ACB portfolio. The newspaper was established in 1885.

Stuttgart Daily Leader
TypeDaily newspaper
Owner(s)Arkansas County Broadcasters, Inc.
PublisherJennifer Allen
EditorEplunus Colvin
Founded1885
Headquarters111 West Sixth Street, Stuttgart, Arkansas 72160, United States
Websitewww.stuttgartdailyleader.com

Liberty Group Publishing, an earlier incarnation of GateHouse, acquired the paper from Hollinger in 1997.[3] The Leader primarily focuses on city news, although it also covers Arkansas County news as well. Stuttgart, a predominantly agricultural community and major center of Arkansas's rice growing industry, is located on the Grand Prairie in northern Arkansas County. It began as a colony of German immigrants,[4] and is one of two county seats in Arkansas County alongside DeWitt.

References
  1. Venta, Lance (2019-09-17). "East Arkansas Broadcasters Expands Into Publishing". RadioInsight. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
  2. Steed, Stephen (2019-09-07). "Firm's Friday paper is its last; Stuttgart Leader sale still possible". Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
  3. Roberts, Gene; Kunkel, Thomas; Layton, Charles, eds. (2001). Leaving Readers Behind: The Age of Corporate Newspapering. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 1610752325.
  4. http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=820
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