The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier

The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier is a daily afternoon newspaper published by Lee Enterprises for people living in Waterloo and Cedar Falls, Iowa as well as northeast Iowa.

The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier

A sample front page of The Courier
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Lee Enterprises
Editor	Doug Hines
General manager	David Adams
Founded	1859
Language	English
Headquarters	6915 Chancellor Dr. Ste B Cedar Falls, IA 50613 United States
Circulation	10,342 Daily (as of 2023)[1]
Website	wcfcourier.com

History

The first issue of The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier was published on November 22, 1859, by WH Hartman and George Ingersoll.^[2] The Courier changed to a daily newspaper in 1890, publishing in the afternoon every day except Saturday.^[2]

Howard Publications 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.^[3] Lee Enterprises acquired the Howard chain in 2002.^[4]