The ''Sidney Daily News'' is an American

daily newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sport ...

published five days a week Tuesdays through Saturdays in

Sidney, Ohio Sidney is a city in Shelby County, Ohio, located approximately 36 mi (58 km) north of Dayton and 100 mi (161 km) south of Toledo. The population was 20,421 at the time of the 2020 census. It is named after English poet Phili ...

. It is owned by AIM Media Midwest.

History

The newspaper's history as a daily dates back to 1891, but its former sister

weekly newspaper A weekly newspaper is a general-news or Current affairs (news format), current affairs publication that is issued once or twice a week in a wide variety broadsheet, magazine, and electronic publishing, digital formats. Similarly, a biweekly new ...

, the ''Shelby County Democrat'', first began publishing January 1, 1849, in Sidney (as the ''Shelby Democrat''). The ''Democrat'' was purchased in 1876 by General

James Oliver Amos James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (disambiguati ...

, and became the first newspaper published by Amos Publishing. The Amos family began the ''Daily News'' in 1891 and published both papers until June 28, 1940, when the ''Democrat'' folded. The family sold its interest in the ''Daily News'' in 1999. After exiting the newspaper business, Amos Publishing continued to operate, still headquartered in Sidney, as the publisher of several magazines dedicated to hobbies such as coin collecting and automobile restoration. In 2000,

Brown Publishing Company Brown Publishing Company was a privately owned Cincinnati, Ohio, newspaper business started by Congressman Clarence J. Brown in Blanchester, Ohio in 1920. It ended 90 years of operations in August/September 2010 with its bankruptcy and sale of ass ...

took control of ''The Sidney Daily News'', integrating it with several other titles produced at its

Tipp City, Ohio Tipp City is a city in Miami County, Ohio, United States just outside Dayton. The population was 9,689 at the 2010 census. Formerly known as Tippecanoe, and then Tippecanoe City. Later, it was renamed to Tipp City in 1938 because another town i ...

, presses as the "

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Group". In February 2009, the ''Daily News'' and two other Brown papers stopped printing Tuesday editions because of the weak economy. Brown Publishing filed for

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bankruptcy protection on April 30, 2010; its Ohio assets, including 14 daily newspapers and about 30 weeklies, were transferred to a new business,

Ohio Community Media Ohio Community Media was an American privately owned publisher of daily and weekly newspapers, primarily in the state of Ohio. It was headquartered in the Dayton suburb of Miamisburg, Ohio, and was owned by Philadelphia-based Versa Capital Mana ...

, which was purchased in May 2011 by

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-based Versa Capital Management. In 2012 Versa merged Ohio Community Media, former Freedom papers it had acquired,

Impressions Media {{Infobox company , name = Impressions Media , logo = , type = Private , foundation = {{start date, 1939, as Wilkes-Barre Publishing Company , location = 15 North Main Street,Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 18 ...

, and

Heartland Publications Heartland Publications was a Connecticut-based owner of small to medium market newspapers, and started out by acquiring 24 publications from Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. located in Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennesse ...

into a new company,

Civitas Media Civitas Media, LLC was a Davidson, North Carolina-based publisher of community newspapers covering 11 Midwestern, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern states. The company was formed in 2012 via the merger of Heartland Publications, Impressions Media, Ohi ...

. Civitas Media sold its Ohio papers to AIM Media Midwest in 2017.

References

External links

''Sidney Daily News''

Ohio Community Media
Newspapers published in Ohio Sidney, Ohio Shelby County, Ohio Newspapers established in 1891 {{Ohio-newspaper-stub