The ''Kearney Hub'' is a daily newspaper published in
Kearney,
Nebraska
Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the southwe ...
,
United States
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, and is the primary newspaper for south-central region of Nebraska surrounding the city, including
Buffalo County, Nebraska
Buffalo County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 46,102, making it Nebraska's fifth-most populous of the 93 counties. Its county seat is K ...
and the
Kearney Micropolitan Statistical Area
The Kearney Micropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties in Nebraska, anchored by the city of Kearney.
As of the 2010 census, the area had a population of 52,591 (though a Ju ...
.
The paper was founded in 1888, and was first published on October 22, 1888.
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, Kearneyhub.com, Retrieved November 10, 2010[(29 October 2007]
''Kearney Hub'', Retrieved November 10, 2010 Its founders included Mentor A. Brown (1853-1932), formerly of the ''
Beatrice Press'', and R.H. Eaton, who together organized the Hub Printing Company to publish the paper and to take over the ''Central Nebraska Press'' which dated from 1873.
[Bassett, Samuel Clay]
Buffalo County, Nebraska, and its people, Volume 1
p.180-81 (1916)[Watkins, Albert]
History of Nebraska, Vol. 3
p.567 (1913) The name "Hub" was chosen because the town was considered the "hub" of the continent, located 1733 miles from both
Boston
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and
San Francisco
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.
Mentor's son Hugh Brown took over the paper after his death in 1932.
[(28 March 2008]
This Week in History - Spokes in Time, 1930s
''Kearney Hub'', Retrieved November 10, 2010 The subsequent leaders of the paper have been Ormond Hill, Robert S. Ayres, Daryl Hall, Steve Chatelain, and Julie Speirs.
Speirs was named publisher and president in 2012, having previously served as vice president and general manager.
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 ch ...
Co. purchased the Hub in 1984.
Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. () is an American Multinational corporation, multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Its main business and source of capital is insurance, from ...
purchased the World-Herald and its subsidiaries in 2011, the purchase serving as the foundation for its BH Media Group. Lee Enterprises purchased the paper in 2020.
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