The ''Midland Daily News'' is a daily

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which serves

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. The offices for the paper are located at 219 East Main Street in

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Midland; the paper is widely circulated around Midland County. The newspaper also prints the school newspaper for

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, ''The Update''. The ''Daily News'' is the last daily newspaper in the Tri-Cities left with a regular print schedule, since the ''

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'' and ''

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'' cut back their print editions to three times a week in June 2009. It publishes 6 days a week, with a weekend edition.

History

The paper can trace its lineage to the 1858 founding of the ''Midland Sentinel'', which after a number of ownership and name changes became the ''Midland Republican'' in 1881. In 1937, ''Republican'' publisher Philip T. Rich founded the ''Midland Daily News'' as a successor to the weekly ''Republican''. In 1968, Rich sold the paper to

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-based Lindsay-Schaub Newspapers. In 1979,

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purchased the ''Daily News'' along with other Lindsay-Schaub papers, then immediately resold the paper to the

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Awards

* AP News Member of the Year (from Michigan

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) * Best Circulation Promotion (from The Newspaper Association of America) * Best Local Advertising Campaign (from The Newspaper Association of America)

References

External links

''Midland Daily News''

Official mobile website

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