''The Daily Independent'' (also known as ''The Independent Weekend Edition'' and formerly known as ''The Independent'' from 2003 to 2015) is a morning

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 ...

covering the city of Ashland and surrounding areas of

Boyd County, Kentucky Boyd County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, its population was 48,065. The county seat is Catlettsburg, and its largest city is Ashland. The county was formed in 1860. Its are found at the northeaste ...

. Previously published daily, the print schedule was reduced to five days a week (Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays as a "Weekend Edition") in April 2020. It is owned by

CNHI CNHI, LLC (formerly Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.) is an American publisher of newspapers and advertising-related publications throughout the United States. The company was formed in 1997 by Ralph Martin,

. It does not publish on Christmas day. Launched December 17, 1896 as the ''Tri-State Independent'' Col. G. F. Friel of nearby

Catlettsburg, Kentucky Catlettsburg is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Boyd County, Kentucky, United States. The city population was 1,856 at the 2010 census. Catlettsburg is a part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH, Metropolitan Statistical Area ...

,"A history of Ashland, Kentucky, 1786–1954." Ashland Centennial Committee. 1954. 2 January 2007. the newspaper moved to 12th Street and Greenup Avenue in Ashland in 1900 as the ''Ashland Daily Independent''; it absorbed the ''Ashland Commercial'' in the move. The first publication after the move was on December 17. The offices later relocated to 17th Street two years later, when it purchased the ''Ashland Daily News'' and discontinued it in that year. In 1920, it founded the ''Sunday Independent'', and five years later, it doubled the size of its headquarters on 17th Street. After years of publishing in the afternoon on weekdays (and morning on weekends), ''The Independent'' switched to all-morning publication in May 2003, and dropped the "Daily" and "Sunday" from its nameplate. The newspaper's Website, however, retains the old name as part of its URL.Daily Independent: About Us
accessed January 19, 2007. However, as of 2015, the newspaper brought back "The Daily Independent" and "The Sunday Independent" namesake, following a redesign. "The Sunday Independent" namesake was dropped again in April 2020, following the shift to printing a "Weekend Edition" on Saturdays. Colonel B.F. Forgey, an

Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...

native who bought half an interest in the paper in 1910, is credited with guiding the paper's growth until his death in 1952. The newspaper continued to be privately owned until

Ottaway Community Newspapers Local Media Group, Inc., formerly Dow Jones Local Media Group and Ottaway Newspapers Inc., owned newspapers, Web sites and niche publications in California, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon and Pennsylvania. It was headquarte ...

bought it in 1979, selling it to CNHI in 2002. The circulation in 1920 was 3,500 but increased to 17,000 by 1954 and peaked at 25,000 in 1980."A history of Ashland, Kentucky, 1854–2004." Ashland Bicentennial Committee. 2004. 2 January 2007.

References

External links

''The Independent'' WebsiteCNHI Website
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