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.^[1] As of early 1972, group owned nine daily newspapers.^[2] Lee Enterprises announced that it would acquire the company on February 12, 2002, for $694 million, with a closing later that year.^[3] At the time of the sale, Howard employed 2,400 people, and its papers had a total daily circulation of 479,000.^[3]

List of previously owned newspapers

• North County Times (Escondido, California; later sold and merged into The San Diego Union-Tribune)
• The Times of Northwest Indiana (Munster, Indiana)(acquired May 1962)^[4]
• Sioux City Journal (Sioux City, Iowa) (one half-ownership acquired in 1972)
• Waterloo Courier (Waterloo, Iowa)
• The Post-Star (Glen Falls, New York) (acquired January 1971)^[5]
• Casper Star-Tribune (Casper, Wyoming)
• Times-News (Twin Falls, Idaho) (acquired April 1968)^[6]
• The Daily News (Longview, Washington)
• The Times and Democrat (Orangeburg, South Carolina)
• The Sentinel (Carlisle, Pennsylvania)
• The Journal Standard (Freeport, Illinois; now owned by Gannett Company)
• The Leader (Corning, New York; now owned by GateHouse Media)
• The Citizen (Auburn, New York)
• Journal Gazette (Mattoon, Illinois)
• The Ledger Independent (Maysville, Kentucky)
• Times-Courier (Charleston, Illinois)
• The Vidette Messenger (Valparaiso, Indiana; merged into The Times of Northwest Indiana, and renamed The Vidette Times)
• Escondido Times-Advocate (merged into the North County Times)
• North County Blade-Citizen (acquired Oceanside Blade-Tribune (circulation approx. 10,500) in 1967,^[7] then acquired San Dieguito Citizen in 1979; merged the two into Blade-Citizen in 1989, which in turn merged into North County Times in 1995)^[8]
• Pharos-Tribune (Logansport, Indiana) (Acquired 1966, sold to Thomson Corporation around 1995 in exchange for Vidette Messenger)
• San Clemente Sun-Post (San Clemente, California)^[9](then acquired by The Orange County Register in 1993)^[10]