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The Examiner (Missouri)

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The Examiner
Examinerheader.jpg
TypeDaily
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Gannett
PublisherJulie Moreno
EditorJeff Fox
FoundedFebruary 19, 1898 (1898-02-19), as The Jackson Examiner[1]
Headquarters410 South Liberty Street, Independence, Missouri, United States
OCLC number28205230
Websiteexaminer.net

The Examiner is the daily newspaper of eastern Jackson County, Missouri, including Independence, Blue Springs and Grain Valley. It is published five days a week – Tuesday through Saturday – and its webpage is at www.examiner.net.

The Examiner was first published as a weekly newspaper in 1898 by Col. William Southern. The daily edition began publication as The Independence Examiner May 16, 1905.[2] The official Examiner website was launched in 1996.

The paper was formerly owned by Stauffer Communications, which was acquired by Morris Communications in 1995.[3] Morris sold the paper, along with 13 others, to GateHouse Media in 2007.[4]

Audrey Stubbart, an American centenarian, worked for The Examiner until the age of 104.

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Jackson County, Missouri

Jackson County, Missouri

Jackson County is located in the western portion of the U.S. state of Missouri, on the border with Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 717,204. making it the second-most populous county in the state. It is the most populated county in the Kansas City metropolitan area.

Independence, Missouri

Independence, Missouri

Independence is the fifth-largest city in Missouri and the county seat of Jackson County. Independence is a satellite city of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the largest suburb on the Missouri side of the Kansas City metropolitan area. In 2020, it had a total population of 123,011.

Blue Springs, Missouri

Blue Springs, Missouri

Blue Springs is a city located in the U.S. state of Missouri within Jackson County. Blue Springs is located 19 miles (31 km) east of downtown Kansas City. Blue Springs is the 9th largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area and 10th largest city in the state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,604, and per the United States Census of estimates from July 2021 the population of Blue Springs is 59,430.

Grain Valley, Missouri

Grain Valley, Missouri

Grain Valley is a city in Jackson County, Missouri, United States. Grain Valley is located in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area and is a suburb of Kansas City. The population was 12,854 at the 2010 census and an estimated 14,526 in 2019. It is 23 miles (37 km) east of downtown Kansas City.

Weekly newspaper

Weekly newspaper

A weekly newspaper is a general-news or current affairs publication that is issued once or twice a week in a wide variety broadsheet, magazine, and digital formats. Similarly, a biweekly newspaper is published once every two weeks. Weekly newspapers tend to have smaller circulations than daily newspapers, and often cover smaller territories, such as one or more smaller towns, a rural county, or a few neighborhoods in a large city. Frequently, weeklies cover local news and engage in community journalism.

Stauffer Communications

Stauffer Communications

Stauffer Communications was a privately held media corporation based in Topeka, Kansas, that owned many publications and broadcast outlets, including the Topeka Capital-Journal and WIBW, WIBW-FM, and WIBW-TV. The company operated from 1930 to 1995.

Morris Communications

Morris Communications

Morris Communications, headquartered in Augusta, Georgia, is a privately held media company with diversified holdings that include magazine publishing, outdoor advertising, book publishing and distribution, visitor publications, and online services.

GateHouse Media

GateHouse Media

GateHouse Media Inc. was an American publisher of locally based print and digital media. It published 144 daily newspapers, 684 community publications, and over 569 local-market websites in 38 states. Its parent company, New Media Investment Group, merged with Gannett in 2019.

Audrey Stubbart

Audrey Stubbart

Audrey Stubbart was an American a proofreader and newspaper columnist for The Independence Examiner until the age of 105. Prior to her death she was the oldest verified newspaper columnist, the oldest known full-time employee, and possibly the oldest user of the Internet.

Centenarian

Centenarian

A centenarian is a person who has reached the age of 100 years. Because life expectancies worldwide are below one hundred, the term is invariably associated with longevity. The United Nations in 2012 estimated that there were 316,600 living centenarians worldwide.

Source: "The Examiner (Missouri)", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2021, January 12th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Examiner_(Missouri).

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Further Reading

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The Grand Island Independent

Brainerd Dispatch

Hillsdale Daily News

The Oak Ridger
References

Examiner [Independence], 27 June 2006: 4A.

  1. ^ "About The Jackson Examiner". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved June 6, 2012.
  2. ^ "About The Independence Examiner". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved June 6, 2012.
  3. ^ Morris Communications buys Stauffer Communications
  4. ^ Morris Publishing Completes Sale of Publications to GateHouse Media Archived 2017-06-28 at the Wayback Machine
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