''Abilene Reporter-News'' is a daily newspaper based in

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, United States. The newspaper started publishing as the weekly ''Abilene Reporter'', helmed by Charles Edwin Gilbert, on June 17, 1881, just three months after Abilene was founded. It is hence the oldest continuous business in the city. It became a daily newspaper in 1885.

History

The newspaper, owned in the early 1920s by Bernard Hanks, became one of the two original flagships of the

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newspaper chain in 1924. In 1937, the company merged its morning paper, ''The Morning News,'' with the afternoon ''Daily Reporter'' to form the ''Abilene Reporter-News''. The newspaper published morning and evening editions into the 1950s. The

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bought the newspaper, along with other Texas-based Harte-Hanks papers, in 1997. Scripps to Acquire Harte-Hanks Outlets The company spun off its newspaper assets into

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in April 2015, which was sold to Gannett in 2016.

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