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 Sw ...

, 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

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, 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

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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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