The Port Arthur News

Infobox Newspaper
name = The Port Arthur News


caption =
type = Daily newspaper
format = Broadsheet
foundation = March 17, 1897
owners = Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
publisher = Roger Underwood
editor = Roger Cowles
managing editor = Ashley Sanders
price =
headquarters = 3501 Turtle Creek Drive
Port Arthur, Texas 77642 USA
circulation = 14,222 daily [ [http://www.cnhi-can.com/circulation CNHI-CAN Circulation] , figures for an undetermined date, accessed January 20, 2007.]
website = [http://www.panews.com PAnews.com]

"The Port Arthur News" is seven-day morning daily newspaper published in Port Arthur, Texas, covering Jefferson County. It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.

The newspaper has not missed an issue since March 17, 1897, when the Stump family, leaving Missouri, printed the first weekly edition in a baggage car of a train on the way to their new home. "The News" went daily (except Sunday) in 1901, and a Sunday edition was added in 1916 (although it was later abandoned, and then reintroduced). By 1920, all of Port Arthur's other newspapers had either folded or been bought out by "The News". A Texas newspaper chain begun by E.S. Fentress and Charles Marsh bought "The News" in 1921, overseeing headquarters and press improvements, until Cox Enterprises bought it in 1976. Cox converted "The News" from an afternoon paper to morning publication in 1986. In 1991, Cox sold "The News", along with its sister paper "The Orange Leader", to American Publishing Company, which in turn dealt them to CNHI in 1999. [http://www.panews.com/aboutus/local_story_112135040.html PAnews.com: Port Arthur News history] , accessed January 20, 2007.]

External links

* [http://www.panews.com/ "The News" Website]
* [http://www.cnhi.com/ CNHI Website]

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