The ''Stuttgart Daily Leader'' is a local news website covering
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...
, in southeast Arkansas. The website's roots are in the community's
print newspaper founded in 1885. It is owned by East Arkansas Broadcasters, via its Arkansas County Broadcasters division, having acquired the newspaper assets from former owner
GateHouse Media in September 2019, in advance of GateHouse's November 2019 merger with
Gannett
Gannett Co., Inc. () is an American mass media holding company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.[KWAK (AM)
KWAK (1240 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an oldies format. Licensed to Stuttgart, Arkansas, United States, the station is currently owned by Arkansas County Broadcasters, Inc.
Programming
Along with its usual oldies programming, KWAK is an ...]
, Stuttgart's first radio station, among other stations in the ACB portfolio. The ACB-owned ''Leader'' resumed regular local online news coverage in August 2020.
Liberty Group Publishing, an earlier incarnation of GateHouse, acquired the paper from
Hollinger in 1997. The ''Leader'' primarily focuses on city news, although it also covers
Arkansas County news as well. Stuttgart, a predominantly agricultural community and major center of Arkansas's rice growing industry, is located on the
Grand Prairie
Grand Prairie is a city in Dallas, Tarrant, and Ellis counties of Texas, in the United States. It is part of the Mid-Cities region in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It had a population of 175,396 according to the 2010 census, making it th ...
in northern Arkansas County. It began as a colony of German immigrants,
and is one of two county seats in Arkansas County alongside DeWitt.
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German-American culture in Arkansas
Newspapers published in Arkansas
Daily Leader
Newspapers established in 1885
1885 establishments in Arkansas
Daily newspapers published in the United States
Gannett publications
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