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Ogden Newspapers Inc.
Company typePrivate
Industry Newspapers, Magazines, Yellow Pages
Founded1890
Headquarters Wheeling, West Virginia
Key people
Robert Nutting, CEO and President
Duane D. Wittman, CFO
Bill Nutting, VP
Products54 daily newspapers
81 weekly newspapers, shoppers, and magazines
Number of employees
3,500 [1]
Website ogdennews.com

Ogden Newspapers Inc. is a Wheeling, West Virginia based publisher of daily and weekly newspapers, magazines, telephone directories, and shoppers guides.

History

The company was founded by H.C. Ogden in 1890, and is currently run by the family of his grandson, G. Ogden Nutting. Current CEO Robert Nutting, son of G. Ogden Nutting, is the fourth generation of the Ogden-Nutting family to run the company, and is also principal owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates. [2] [3] It has operations in California, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia, serving mostly small markets, such as Cape Coral, Florida, Fort Wayne, Indiana and Lawrence, Kansas. [4]

In October 1984, two Ogden newspapers ( The Intelligencer and The Evening Journal) dropped the Doonesbury comic strip because they objected to Doonesbury's coverage of Ronald Reagan. [5]

On January 30, 2018, it emerged that the company was the apparent high bid to purchase the bankrupt Charleston Gazette-Mail [6] It withdrew the bid on March 8, 2018. [7]

On January 1, 2022, Ogden Newspapers took over Swift Communications, which has publications in Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California. [8]

Magazines

Kansas

Newspapers [10]

California

Colorado

Florida

Hawaii

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Maryland

Michigan

Minnesota

New Hampshire

New York

North Dakota

Ohio

Pennsylvania

Utah

Virginia

West Virginia

References

  1. ^ Ogden Newspapers, Inc. Hoover's Profile, accessed April 25, 2010.
  2. ^ "Ogden Newspapers Inc. (ONI)". oweb.com. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
  3. ^ "The Ogden Newspapers, Inc.: Private Company Information - Businessweek". BusinessWeek. Archived from the original on 2012-07-14. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
  4. ^ "Ogden Newspapers, Inc.: quotes & news - Google Finance". google.com. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
  5. ^ "Doonesbury comic strip axed by conservative newspapers". news. Lodi News-Sentinel. No. 14, 193. Lodi, California. United Press International. October 19, 1984. p. 5. Retrieved August 25, 2021 – via Google News Archive.
  6. ^ "Gazette-Mail filing for bankruptcy; Ogden Newspapers current high bidder". 29 January 2018.
  7. ^ "WV MetroNews – Ogden out as Gazette-Mail bidder, leaving Herald-Dispatch". wvmetronews.com. 8 March 2018. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  8. ^ "Parent company of Vail Daily sells to Ogden Newspapers".
  9. ^ a b c Ogden Newspapers Inc. (ONI) - magazines webpage. Retrieved 2021-July-20.
  10. ^ "Locations | The Ogden Newspapers". Retrieved 2023-02-27.
  11. ^ "Terms of Use". PineIsland-Eagle.com. Ogden Newspapers. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  12. ^ "Ogden Names Bartoldson As DN-R Publisher". Daily News-Record. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
  13. ^ The Winchester Star, Regional native Gochenour named publisher of The Star, retrieved April 5, 2018