''The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier'' is a daily afternoon newspaper published by

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for people living in Waterloo and Cedar Falls,

Iowa Iowa () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the ...

as well as northeast Iowa. The first issue of ''The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier'' was published on November 22, 1859, by WH Hartman and George Ingersoll. ''The Courier'' changed to a daily newspaper in 1890, publishing in the afternoon every day except Saturday.

Howard Publications Howard Publications was a family-owned company of newspapers in the United States. It owned 16 daily newspapers when it sold to Lee Enterprises for $694 million in 2002. Robert S. Howard founded the company in 1961.York, Tom (2 December 2019)Speci ...

bought the ''Waterloo Courier'' and ''Cedar Falls Record'' in 1983. At that time, the ''Courier'' had been owned for 128 years by the same family, and had a daily circulation of around 55,000 in 1983. The circulation of ''The Record'' was about 4,000.(27 January 1983)
The impending sale of the Waterloo Courier and the...
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acquired the Howard chain in 2002.(13 February 2002)
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References

External links

Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier Web Site

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