The ''Midland Daily News'' is a daily

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which serves Midland County, Michigan. The offices for the paper are located at 219 East Main Street in downtown Midland; the paper is widely circulated around Midland County. The newspaper also prints the school newspaper for Herbert Henry Dow High School, ''The Update''. The ''Daily News'' is the last daily newspaper in the Tri-Cities left with a regular print schedule, since the ''

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'' cut back their print editions to three times a week in June 2009. It publishes 6 days a week, with a weekend edition.

History

The paper can trace its lineage to the 1858 founding of the ''Midland Sentinel'', which after a number of ownership and name changes became the ''Midland Republican'' in 1881. In 1937, ''Republican'' publisher Philip T. Rich founded the ''Midland Daily News'' as a successor to the weekly ''Republican''. In 1968, Rich sold the paper to Lindsay-Schaub Newspapers, a company based in

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. In 1979,

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purchased the ''Daily News'' along with other Lindsay-Schaub papers, then immediately resold the paper to the

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Awards

* AP News Member of the Year (from Michigan

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) * Best Circulation Promotion (from The Newspaper Association of America) * Best Local Advertising Campaign (from The Newspaper Association of America)

References

External links

''Midland Daily News''

Official mobile website

Hearst Corporation: ''Midland Daily News''
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