The ''Jackson County Banner'' is a local newspaper serving

Jackson County, Indiana Jackson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2010, the population was 42,376. The county seat is Brownstown. History Jackson County was formed in 1816. It was named after General Andrew Jackson. Jackson County was ...

, first published in April 1869. It is published semiweekly in Brownstown. The newspaper is owned by AIM Media Indiana, which purchased the company from Community Media Group in 2016. The Jackson County Banner was founded by William Frysinger April 1, 1869, and sold seven months later to Henry M. Beadle. Less than a year later, Beadle sold the newspaper back to Frysinger. This newspaper went back and forth among owners until 1896 when Frysinger's widow inherited the paper after his death. In 1898 the editor of the paper, Andrew J. Brodhecker, bought the business and later passed it down to his sons. By 1973 a family by the name of Pesta owned the newspaper and changed it from a weekly newspaper to a semiweekly newspaper on April 15, 1974.{{Cite book, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zo5AAQAAMAAJ, title=History of Jackson County, Indiana: From the Earliest Time to the Present, with Biographical Sketches, Notes, Etc. : Together with an Extended History of the Northwest, the Indiana Territory and the State of Indiana, date=1886, publisher=Unigraphic Incorporated

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Newspapers published in Indiana Jackson County, Indiana 1896 establishments in Indiana