''The Rolla Daily News'' was a
daily newspaper
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published in
Rolla,
Missouri
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,
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until October 2021. It was owned by
Gannett
Gannett Co., Inc. () is an American mass media holding company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.[Phelps County, Missouri
Phelps County is a county in the central portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 44,638. The largest city and county seat is Rolla. The county was organized on November 13, 1857, and was n ...]
, including the city of
Newburg. It traced its history back to several Rolla newspapers that date back to the 1870s.
Madeleine Albright
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worked as a reporter there in the 1950s.
It was noted for its coverage of the development of Rolla as a town, with a dedicated "Progress Edition" having been published annually during the town's growth in the 1940s and 1950s.
The paper was the site of legal notices regarding the environmental impact of the Route 63 Corridor Project.
''The Rolla Daily News'' was printed at the presses of its sister paper in nearby
Pulaski County, ''
The Daily Guide
''The Daily Guide'' (also called ''The Waynesvile Daily Guide'' and formerly the ''Fort Gateway Daily Guide'') was a daily newspaper published in Pulaski County, Missouri, United States. It was owned by GateHouse Media, which shuttered it in 201 ...
'', as was the ''St. James Leader-Journal'', in the Phelps County city of
St. James.
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Newspapers published in Missouri
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