Owatonna People's Press

Owatonna People's Press
People's Press logo
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatPrint (4 days a week)
Owner(s)Adams Publishing Group
PublisherKevin True
Founded1874
LanguageAmerican English
Headquarters135 W Pearl St Owatonna, Minnesota  United States
CityOwatonna
CountryUnited States
Circulation2,962 (as of 2024)[1]
ISSN0890-2860
OCLC number1776134
Websiteowatonna.com

The Owatonna People's Press is a four-day daily newspaper serving Owatonna, Minnesota and surrounding communities and is considered the paper of record for Steele County. The Owatonna Area Shopper is also published in and around Owatonna.[2][3]

History

The People's Press was founded on September 2, 1874 by Benjamin E. Darby as a weekly four-page paper.[4]

Darby served as newspaper editor for 65 years, from 1874 until 1939.

The first issue of the Press, which predated public lighting in Owatanna, included a lengthy recounting of a county convention that nominated candidates for various county offices.[5]

The paper was expanded to ten pages of news and advertising in 1900 when railroad lines began intersecting Owatonna.

Darby added a daily edition in 1916 named the Daily People's Press and discontinued the weekly edition in 1921.

In 1938, Darby bought and consolidated the Steele County pioneer weekly Owatonna Journal-Chronicle to the Press.

In 1969, the name of the paper was officially changed to the Owatonna People's Press.[6]

Publishers

The Owatonna People's Press is published by Adams Publishing Group Inc. based out of Coon Rapids, Minnesota and printed in Princeton, Minnesota.

Once a morning daily, the People's Press reduced its frequency to four days a week in February 2021, and transitioned to an afternoon delivery schedule and regionalized coverage.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Minnesota Newspaper Directory 2024" (PDF). Minnesota Newspaper Association. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 15, 2024. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
  2. ^ "About Owatonna people's press. [volume] (Owatonna, Minn.) 1969-current". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
  3. ^ "Owatonna People's Press" (PDF). Minnesota Newspaper Association, Directory. Retrieved January 31, 2020.
  4. ^ Curtiss-Wedge, Franklyn (1910). History of Rice and Steele counties, Minnesota. Chicago: H.C. Cooper, Jr.
  5. ^ Curtiss-Wedge, Frankly (1910). History of Rice and Steele Counties, Minnesota. Chicago: H.C. Cooper, Jr. p. 778.
  6. ^ "Daily People's Press". www.mnhs.org. Retrieved 31 March 2024.


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