The ''Daily Reporter'' is an American

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published Mondays through Saturdays in

Greenfield, Indiana Greenfield is a city in and the county seat of Hancock County, Indiana, United States, and a part of the Indianapolis metropolitan area. The population was 20,602 at the 2010 census, and an estimated 23,006 in 2019. It lies in Center Township. ...

. It is owned by

Home News Enterprises AIM Media Indiana (formerly Home News Enterprises) is an American printer and publisher of daily and weekly newspapers, based in Columbus, Indiana. Its flagship newspaper is '' The Republic'' in Columbus, and its other newspaper holdings also c ...

. It covers the city of Greenfield and several nearby communities in

Hancock County, Indiana Hancock County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. The 2020 United States Census recorded a population of 79,840. The county seat is Greenfield. Hancock County is included in the Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN Metropolitan Statistical ...

. In addition to the daily newspaper, the ''Daily Reporter'' produces two

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s in Hancock County, the ''Fortville/McCordsville Reporter'' and the ''New Palestine Reporter''. Home News also owns a third weekly in neighboring Madison County, ''The Times-Post''.

History

''The Greenfield Daily Reporter'' was founded in 1908, although through a merger one year later it also incorporates the history of ''The Evening Star'', founded August 1, 1904. Robert N. Brown, whose grandfather had started '' The Republic'' in

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and who himself had founded the '' Daily Journal'' in

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, both in communities south of

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, purchased the ''Greenfield Daily Reporter'' in 1973, a year after the death of Dorothea Spencer, whose family had started the paper in 1908. He said at the time that his goals for the newspaper would be "reflecting the total image of a community in news coverage, to serve community betterment, and to provide counsel in its editorials as public conscience." The newspaper has stayed in the family ever since; its current owner,

, is a partnership of various Brown family members set up in 1994. Home News expanded its holdings east of Indianapolis in June 2007, with the purchase of two weeklies in Madison County, the ''Lapel Post'' and ''The Pendleton Times'', which it combined into the ''Times-Post'' of Pendleton.

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* * {{HomeNews Hancock County, Indiana Newspapers published in Indiana Mass media in Indianapolis Publications established in 1908 1908 establishments in Indiana