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The ''Anderson Independent-Mail'', marketed as ''Independent Mail'' and sometimes referred to as ''Anderson Independent Mail'', is a newspaper for Anderson County in the state of
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. It is owned by Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. It is the closest daily newspaper to
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, the newspaper's sports department heavily covers the sports of the
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.


History

G. Pierce Browne founded the precursor afternoon newspaper the ''Anderson Daily Mail'' in 1899. Wilton E. Hall, publisher of the ''Morning Anderson Independent'', bought the ''Anderson Daily Mail'' and published both newspapers for more than four decades. The two papers were purchased by Harte-Hanks Communications in 1972 and combined as the ''Anderson Independent-Mail''. In 1997, The
E. W. Scripps Company The E. W. Scripps Company, also known as Scripps, is an American broadcasting company founded in 1878 as a chain of daily newspapers by Edward Willis "E. W." Scripps and his sister, Ellen Browning Scripps. It was also formerly a media conglom ...
bought the newspaper. Scripps spun out its newspaper assets into
Journal Media Group Journal Media Group (formerly Journal Communications) was a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based newspaper publishing company. The company's roots were first established in 1882 as the owner of its namesake, the ''Milwaukee Journal'', and expanded into br ...
in April 2015. In 2016,
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acquired all 15 daily JMG newspapers, including the ''Independent Mail''.


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* Newspapers published in South Carolina Anderson County, South Carolina Gannett publications {{SouthCarolina-stub