The ''Daily Local News'' is an American daily newspaper based in

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, also offering limited coverage of neighboring Lancaster and

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counties. It covers local and national news, sports, culture, and entertainment. The paper published its first issue in West Chester on November 19, 1872. The MediaNews Group owns the paper.

History

The founder of the ''Daily Local News'' was William H. Hodgson, son of John Hodgson, who published ''The Jeffersonian'', a West Chester weekly affiliated with the

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, from 1855 to 1910. ''The Daily Local News'' began as a proceedings of the Chester County Teachers' Institute but rapidly morphed into Chester County's first daily newspaper, gaining 800 subscribers by June 1873 and becoming the highest circulating daily outside

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. Circulation rose to 14,741 subscribers in 1904. Hodgson remained publisher through 1909, when the Daily Local News Company formed to manage the newspaper. The ''Daily Local News'' continued to circulate briskly throughout the twentieth century, adding a Sunday edition in 1986. As of 2013, it had a daily circulation of more than 25,000 and a Sunday reach of more than 28,000. The newspaper downsized in 2017, relocating its headquarters to its printing plant in Uwchlan and selling the West Chester building that had housed the paper since 1970. Humorist Dave Barry worked at the paper from 1971 to 1977, starting as a reporter and becoming news editor by 1975. He continued to write a weekly humor column until the mid-1980s. Barry met his second wife, Beth Lenox, while they were both reporters there.

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