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The ''Kearney Hub'' is a daily newspaper published in Kearney, Nebraska, United States, and is the primary newspaper for south-central region of Nebraska surrounding the city, including
Buffalo County, Nebraska Buffalo County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 50,084, making it Nebraska's fifth-most populous Nebraska counties ...
and the Kearney Micropolitan Statistical Area.


History

The paper was founded in 1888, and was first published on October 22, 1888.About Us
, Kearneyhub.com, Retrieved November 10, 2010
(29 October 2007

''Kearney Hub'', Retrieved November 10, 2010
Its founders included Mentor A. Brown (1853-1932), formerly of the '' Beatrice Press'', and R.H. Eaton, who together organized the Hub Printing Company to publish the paper and to take over the ''Central Nebraska Press'' which dated from 1873.Bassett, Samuel Clay
Buffalo County, Nebraska, and its people, Volume 1
p.180-81 (1916)
Watkins, Albert
History of Nebraska, Vol. 3
p.567 (1913)
The name "Hub" was chosen because the town was considered the "hub" of the continent, located 1733 miles from both
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and
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. Mentor's son Hugh Brown took over the paper after his death in 1932.(28 March 2008
This Week in History - Spokes in Time, 1930s
''Kearney Hub'', Retrieved November 10, 2010
The subsequent leaders of the paper have been Ormond Hill, Robert S. Ayres, Daryl Hall, Steve Chatelain, and Julie Speirs. Speirs was named publisher and president in 2012, having previously served as vice president and general manager. The
Omaha World-Herald The ''Omaha World-Herald'' is a daily newspaper in the midwestern United States, the primary newspaper of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area. It was locally owned from its founding in 1885 until 2020, when it was sold to the newspaper ...
Co. purchased the Hub in 1984.
Berkshire Hathaway Berkshire Hathaway Inc. () is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. Originally a textile manufacturer, the company transitioned into a conglomerate starting in 1965 under the management of c ...
purchased the World-Herald and its subsidiaries in 2011, the purchase serving as the foundation for its BH Media Group. Lee Enterprises purchased the paper in 2020. Starting July 18, 2023, the print edition of the newspaper will be reduced to three days a week: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Also, the newspaper will transition from being delivered by a traditional newspaper delivery carrier to mail delivery by the U.S. Postal Service.


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