The ''Southwest Times Record'' is a daily newspaper in
Fort Smith, Arkansas
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and covers 10 counties in
western Arkansas
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and
eastern Oklahoma
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. It is owned and published by
Gannett
Gannett Co., Inc. () is an American mass media holding company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.Donald W. Reynolds, owner of the Okmulgee (Okla.) Daily Times. His purchase of the Times Record and American marked the start of the Donrey Media Group. In 1969, Donrey halted separate delivery of the afternoon ''Times Record'' and morning ''American'', merging the papers into a single seven-day morning paper under the ''Southwest Times Record'' name. It has published daily under that moniker since.
The paper remained the flagship of Donrey until Reynolds' death in 1993. Reynolds' longtime friend Jack Stephens bought the company, changed its name to Stephens Media Group in 2002 and later to Stephens Media LLC, and moved the headquarters to
Las Vegas, Nevada
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, home of the group's largest property, the ''
Las Vegas Review-Journal
The ''Las Vegas Review-Journal'' is a daily subscription newspaper published in Las Vegas, Nevada, since 1909. It is the largest circulating daily newspaper in Nevada and one of two daily newspapers in the Las Vegas area.
The ''Review-Journal'' ...
''. In 2015, the Stephens Media newspapers were sold to