AIM Media Indiana (formerly Home News Enterprises) is an American printer and publisher of daily and weekly

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s, based in

Columbus, Indiana Columbus () is a city in and the county seat of Bartholomew County, Indiana, United States. The population was 50,474 at the 2020 census. The city is known for its architectural significance, having commissioned noted works of modern architect ...

. Its flagship newspaper is '' The Republic'' in Columbus, and its other newspaper holdings also cover small cities and counties south and east of

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. Not counting its 2012 acquisition of ''

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'', the company boasts an overall circulation of 55,000. On November 11, 2022, it was announced that Richard Clark would succeed Bud Hunt as vice president and group publisher for AIM Media Indiana, with responsibility for all AIM Media properties within the state.

History

Isaac T. Brown founded '' The Columbus Republican'' in 1872. Isaac's father, Isaac M. Brown, served as the newspaper's editor. Isaac T. Brown died in 1917, leaving his son Raymond Brown in sole control of the newspaper. Raymond Brown converted the company into a partnership with his wife Anna in 1942, and in 1963 expanded the partnership to include their adult children Richard Brown, Robert N. Brown and Elizabeth B. Marshall. The partnership became a

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(LLC) in 1994. The company began expanding its holdings in 1963, when Robert N. Brown started the '' Daily Journal'' in Johnson County, which borders on Columbus'

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to the north. In 1973, Home News acquired '' The Greenfield Daily Reporter'', in Hancock County east of

, a year after the death of Dorothea Spencer, whose family had started the paper in 1908. Home News purchased two competing

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s in

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, the ''Angola Herald'' and ''Steuben Republican'', in 1982 and combined them into one newspaper, publishing twice each week. The company held this

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publication until 2001, when it sold '' The Herald Republican'' to

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, which converted it to a daily newspaper. Around the same time as the Angola purchase, Home News bought the '' Herald Journal'' in

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, in north-central Indiana. It sold this paper in 2008 to Community Newspaper Group of

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. At the time, Home News CEO Jeffrey N. Brown said his company wanted to concentrate on "our cluster of newspapers and commercial printing around the Indianapolis and southern Indiana areas". The company had expanded its footprint in the Columbus area in 2002, buying its neighboring weekly the ''Brown County Democrat'' (founded as ''The Jacksonian'' in 1870). Five years later it grew its holdings east of Indianapolis with the June 2007 purchase of two weeklies in Madison County, the ''Lapel Post'' and ''The Pendleton Times'', which it combined into the ''Times-Post''. Home News added its latest title in 2012, purchasing ''

'' for an undisclosed sum from

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-based publisher

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, which was emerging from bankruptcy and selling several of its newspaper assets at the time. ''The Tribune'' covers

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, in Jackson County, which borders Bartholomew County to the south; Home News had been printing ''The Tribune'' at its Columbus presses "for several years". In 2015, all Home News properties were sold to AIM Media Indiana, a sister company of

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Holdings

The company operates presses in

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and

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, both of which offer commercial printing services in addition to printing Home News' own newspapers. It also has editorial and business offices in Columbus,

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, Pendleton and

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, all in Indiana (its Greenfield newspaper offices are in the same building as the presses). AIM Media Indiana's newspapers are: * '' Daily Journal'' of

and its sister weekly: ** ''Edinburgh Courier'' of

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* '' Daily Reporter'' of Greenfield and its sister weeklies: ** ''Fortville/McCordsville Reporter'' of Fortville ** ''New Palestine Reporter'' of New Palestine * '' The Republic'' of

* ''

'' of

* Other weekly newspapers: ** ''Brown County Democrat'' of

** ''Times-Post'' of Pendleton

References

External links

* * {{HomeNews, Bartholomew County, Indiana Mass media in Indianapolis Newspaper companies of the United States