{{Short description|Twice-weekly newspaper in Middlesboro, Kentucky, United States}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Middlesboro Daily News | image = | caption = | type = Nearly-daily newspaper | format = Broadsheet | founded = 1911 | owners = Middlesboro-Tazewell Newsmedia LLC (Boone Newspapers) | publisher = Rita Haldeman | headquarters = Middlesboro, Kentucky, United States<ref name=KPressAssoc /> | editor = Marisa Anders | issn = 1041-7095 | oclc = 14395566 | website = {{URL|middlesborodailynews.com}} | circulation = 4,000<ref name=KPressAssoc /> }} '''''The Middlesboro Daily News''''' is an American newspaper in Middlesboro, Kentucky and the newspaper's corresponding website. It circulates throughout Bell County, Kentucky.<ref name= moved>{{cite web| url= http://claiborneprogress.net/news/1686/daily-news-has-moved| title= Daily News has moved| date= 3 September 2015| first= Reina P. | last= Cunningham|website=ClaiborneProgress.net| publisher= Civitas Media | accessdate= 10 September 2015}}</ref> The newspaper is published two times a week, Wednesday and Saturday, except on major holidays.<ref name= AboutUs>{{cite web| url= http://middlesborodailynews.com/about-us| title= About Us| website= MiddlesboroDailyNews.com| accessdate= 10 September 2015}}</ref><ref name=KPressAssoc>{{cite web| url= http://www.kypress.com/directory/daily_detail.php?id=40 | title= Middlesboro Daily News| website= kypress.com| publisher= Kentucky Press Association| accessdate= 10 September 2015}}</ref>
==History and description== The ''Middlesboro Daily News'' was first printed in 1911.<ref name= AboutUs /> Its local owners sold it in 1970 to Worrell Newspapers, which sold it to The New York Times Co. in 1982. In 1990, the Times sold it and the Harlan Daily Enterprise to American Publishing Company, later renamed Hollinger International. It was later owned by Heartland Publications,<ref name=notable>{{cite web| url= http://nkaa.uky.edu/source.php?source_id=1551| website= Notable Kentucky African Americans Database| title= Middlesboro daily news (newspapers) |publisher= University of Kentucky| accessdate= 10 September 2015}}</ref> which became part of Civitas Media.<ref>{{cite web |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=September 11, 2012 |title=Versa Capital Announces the Formation of Civitas Media, LLC |url= http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120911006840/en/Versa-Capital-Announces-Formation-Civitas-Media-LLC |website=Business Wire |publisher=Berkshire Hathaway |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120916012431/http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120911006840/en/Versa-Capital-Announces-Formation-Civitas-Media-LLC |archive-date=September 16, 2012 |url-status=dead |access-date=April 10, 2017}}</ref> Civitas sold the Daily News and the Harlan Daily Enterprise to Boone Newspapers in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Quarterly Updates - 3rd Quarter 2017| work = Dirks, Van Essen & Murray| accessdate = 2017-10-28| date = 2017-09-30| url = http://dirksvanessen.com/articles/view/226/3rd-quarter-2017/}}</ref>
According to the Kentucky Press Association, ''The Middlesboro Daily News'' has a circulation of approximately 4,000.<ref name=KPressAssoc />
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==External links== *[http://middlesborodailynews.com Official website]
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Category:Newspapers published in Kentucky Category:Middlesboro, Kentucky Category:Newspapers established in 1911 Category:1911 establishments in Kentucky Category:Bell County, Kentucky Category:Boone Newspapers
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