''The Daily Nonpareil'' is a daily newspaper serving
Council Bluffs
Council Bluffs is a city in and the county seat of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States. The city is the most populous in Southwest Iowa, and is the third largest and a primary city of the Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan Area. It is loc ...
and a 10-county area of southwest
Iowa
Iowa () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wiscon ...
.
''The Daily Nonpareil'' is southwest Iowa's largest newspaper.
It was founded on May 2, 1857.
The paper was acquired in 2011 by
Berkshire Hathaway
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, when it bought the paper's then parent, the ''
Omaha World-Herald
The ''Omaha World-Herald'' is a daily newspaper in the midwestern United States, the primary newspaper of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area. It was locally owned from its founding in 1885 until 2020, when it was sold to the newspaper c ...
'' and its other subsidiary newspapers in
Kearney,
Grand Island,
York
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,
North Platte
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Etymology
The word ''no ...
, and
Scottsbluff, Nebraska
Scottsbluff is a city in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, Scotts Bluff County, in the western part of the state of Nebraska, in the Great Plains region of the United States. The population was 14,436 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. ...
. The ''World-Herald'' acquired partial ownership in 2000 and full ownership in 2007.
In 2020,
Lee Enterprises
Lee Enterprises, Inc. is a publicly traded American media company. It publishes 77 daily newspapers in 26 states, and more than 350 weekly, classified, and specialty publications. Lee Enterprises was founded in 1890 by Alfred Wilson Lee and is ba ...
purchased BH Media Group's newspapers. This purchase included ''The Daily Nonpareil'', the ''Clarinda Herald-Journal'', the ''Shenandoah Valley News Today'', the ''Logan-Woodbine Twiner'', and the ''Denison Bulletin-Review''. On March 16, 2020, Lee officially took over as ''The Daily Nonpareils parent company.
Unusually, the paper made a dual-party endorsement in 2016, endorsing both
Bernie Sanders and
John Kasich
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, as the best-qualified nominees of the two major parties.
From 1965 to 2000, it was owned by several newspaper chains, including
Thomson Newspapers
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and
MediaNews Group
MNG Enterprises, Inc., Trade name, doing business as Digital First Media and MediaNews Group, is a Denver, Colorado-based newspaper publisher owned by Alden Global Capital. The company has been growing its portfolio and as of May 2021, owns ove ...
.
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1857 establishments in Iowa
Council Bluffs, Iowa
Daily newspapers published in the United States
Lee Enterprises publications
Newspapers published in Iowa
Publications established in 1857