Southern Newspapers

Southern Newspapers Inc. (SNI) is a publishing holding company headquartered in Houston, Texas.[1] The company was founded as Southern Newspapers, Inc., of Tennessee in 1967 by Carmage Walls. Its flagship paper, the Galveston County Daily News is the oldest newspaper in Texas, founded in 1842.[2]

Publications

The company owns several publications, primarily in Texas.

Current publications

The April 19, 1842 front page of The Daily News, forerunner to the Galveston County Daily News.

• Bay City Tribune (1845) [1], Bay City, Texas
• Baytown Sun (1949) [2], Baytown, Texas
• Brazosport Facts (1913) [3], Brazoria County, Texas
• The Daily Sentinel (1899) [4], Nacogdoches, Texas
• Fort Payne Times-Journal [5], Fort Payne, Alabama
• The Galveston County Daily News (1842) [6], Galveston, Texas
• Kerrville Daily Times (1908) [7], Kerrville, Texas
• The Lawton Constitution (1904) [8], Lawton, Oklahoma
• Lufkin Daily News (1906) [9], Lufkin, Texas
• New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung (1852) [10], New Braunfels, Texas
• The Paris News (1869) [11], Paris, Texas
• Sand Mountain Reporter [12], Albertville, Alabama
• Scottsboro Daily Sentinel [13], Scottsboro, Alabama
• Seguin Gazette (1888) [14], Seguin, Texas
• Walton Tribune [15], Monroe, Georgia

Defunct publications

• Angleton Times (1893–2004) - absorbed by the Brazosport Facts[3]
• Del Rio News-Herald (1929–2020) - discontinued[4]
• Texas City Sun (1912–2004) - absorbed by the Galveston County Daily News[5]
• Weekly Post (1986–2010) - absorbed by sister paper, the Fort Payne Times-Journal.[6]

External links

• Texas Digital Newspaper Program

References

1. Home page. Southern Newspapers Inc.. Retrieved on January 23, 2010. "5701 Woodway Drive Suite 131 Houston, TX 77057 "
2. History of the Galveston News http://galvestondailynews.com/history.lasso
3. Houston Chronicle http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2004_3748308
4. "Del Rio News-Herald to publish final edition". delrionewsherald.com. Retrieved 2020-11-18.
5. Houston Chronicle http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2004_3810265
6. "Weekly Post, Times-Journal merge". The Weekly Post. Archived from the original on 2010-07-06. Retrieved 2010-04-02.

• Galveston County Daily News: Lufkin, Nacogdoches newspapers join SNI family