Plainsman (South Dakota)

The Daily Plainsman, also referred to as the Plainsman, was a newspaper in Huron, South Dakota. The paper is owned by the News Media Corporation. It started operation in 1886 and ceased in 2025.

Huron Plainsman

Front Page of the Nov. 6, 2012, edition
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Berliner
Owner(s)	Champion Media
Publisher	Shaun Sarvis
Editor	Benjamin Chase
Staff writers	4
Founded	January 4, 1886
Political alignment	Center
Headquarters	Huron Plainsman 49 Third Street Huron, South Dakota 57350
Circulation	6,206 (as of 2015)[1]
Website	plainsman.com

History

The Huron Plainsman started as the Daily Huronite on January 3, 1886. It ran with four to six pages per edition. Being locally owned for almost 100 years, the owners sold the paper to Freedom Newspapers in 1980, which ran it for the next ten years, when they sold to the Omaha World-Herald in 1990. The Omaha paper sold it along with other papers in South Dakota to News Media Corporation in 1998.^[2] The company ceased and shuttered the paper on August 6, 2025.^[3] The Plainsman was revived after it was sold to Champion Media.^[4]