''Miami Valley Today'' (formerly the ''Troy Daily News'') is an American

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published Wednesdays and Sundays in

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. It is owned by AIM Media Midwest. In addition to Troy, ''Miami Valley Today'' circulates in several communities of

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, including Casstown,

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, Covington,

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, Piqua, Pleasant Hill,

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and West Milton. ''Miami Valley Today'' is printed in

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History

The newspaper was founded as a

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in 1909. In 1955, the newspaper was bought by George Kuser. He owned the paper until 1998. Kuser was an eccentric businessman who lived abroad in Africa, Italy and Turkey for much of that time. Upon his returns to Troy, he sometimes lived in an apartment built atop the Daily News' newsroom. In the late 1990s, Daily News employees bought stock in the company through an innovative employee stock ownership program.

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, of

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, bought the paper and its commercial printing operations in November 1998, intending to build a regional chain. Instead, the company sold the ''Daily News'' for an undisclosed price to

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, which already owned several properties in the area. Brown, a

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-based family business, purchased the ''Daily News'' in April 2001, integrating it with the ''

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'' and ''

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Group", sharing the printing plant at Tipp City. In February 2009, these three newspapers stopped printing Tuesday editions because of the weak economy, reducing the Troy paper to six publication days per week, including the ''Miami Valley Sunday News''. Brown Publishing filed for

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on April 30, 2010; its Ohio assets, including 14 daily newspapers and about 30 weeklies, were transferred to a new business,

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, which was purchased in May 2011 by

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papers it had acquired,

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, and

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into a new company,

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. Civitas Media sold its Ohio papers to AIM Media Midwest, a subsidiary of AIM Media Management, in 2017. On December 5, 2018, AIM Media Midwest merged the ''Troy Daily News'' and ''Piqua Daily Call'' into a single daily newspaper, ''Miami Valley Today''. The two former rival newspapers moved into a single newsroom in a building across the street from the Miami County Fairgrounds, roughly midway between the two cities. The merger eventually resulted in staffing cuts. In February 2023, ''Miami Valley Today'' reduced its publishing schedule to Wednesdays and Sundays as part of cost-cutting across AIM Media Midwest.

Notable alumni

The ''Troy Daily News'' has produced several well-known journalists, especially photojournalists. Among the alumni are: *

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, war photographer for

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References

External links

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''Miami Valley Today'' Archives
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