The ''Blackwell Journal-Tribune'' is a weekly

newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...

Blackwell, Oklahoma Blackwell is a city in Kay County, Oklahoma, United States, located at the intersection of U.S. Highway 177 and State Highway 11 along Interstate 35 (exit #222). The population was 7,092 at the 2010 census and 6,085 in the 2020 Census. Blackwe ...

. It is distributed Wednesdays via mail and has a circulation of roughly 1,500."about us"
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Blackwell Journal Tribune Web site
(accessed May 27, 2011). The paper primarily serves Blackwell, but also provides news and sports coverage of neighboring communities in Kay and

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counties in north central

Oklahoma Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...

and a small portion of Sumner County in south central

Kansas Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the ...

. The small towns of Braman, Nardin, Lamont, Deer Creek, Newkirk, Medford, and South Haven (KS) are included in this coverage area. The publication is the result of a 1939 merger of the ''Daily Tribune'' and the ''Blackwell Journal''."about us"
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Blackwell Journal Tribune Web site
(accessed May 27, 2011). The ''Daily Tribune'' was published first as the ''Daily World'' in 1915. The ''Blackwell Tribune'' began publication in 1933, and the two papers merged six years later. For 67 years, the paper was published at the newspaper building, located at 113 East Blackwell Avenue, before being shifted to an off-site printing format in 2007. In 2015 the old building was condemned and the small staff were located to a new facility on Main Street.

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