The ''Stuttgart Daily Leader'' is a local news website covering

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; ; Swabian German, Swabian: ; Alemannic German, Alemannic: ; Italian language, Italian: ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, largest city of the States of Germany, German state of ...

, in southeast Arkansas.

History

The website's roots are in the community's print newspaper founded in 1885. It is owned by East Arkansas Broadcasters, via its Arkansas County Broadcasters division, having acquired the newspaper assets from former owner

GateHouse Media GateHouse Media Inc. was an American publisher of locally based print and digital media. It published 144 daily newspapers, 684 community publications, and over 569 local-market websites in 38 states. Its parent company, New Media Investment Group ...

in September 2019, in advance of GateHouse's November 2019 merger with

Gannett Gannett Co., Inc. ( ) is an American mass media holding company headquartered in New York City. It is the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation. It owns the national newspaper ''USA Today'', as well as several ...

. GateHouse ceased its publication of the newspaper on September 6, as negotiations for the sale to new ownership were pending. The ''Leader'''s current ownership is shared with

KWAK (AM) KWAK (1240 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an oldies format. Licensed to Stuttgart, Arkansas, United States, the station is currently owned by Arkansas County Broadcasters, Inc. Programming Along with its usual oldies programming, KWAK is a ...

, Stuttgart's first radio station, among other stations in the ACB portfolio. The ACB-owned ''Leader'' resumed regular local online news coverage in August 2020. Liberty Group Publishing, an earlier incarnation of GateHouse, acquired the paper from Hollinger in 1997. The ''Leader'' primarily focuses on city news, although it also covers Arkansas County news as well. Stuttgart, a predominantly agricultural community and major center of Arkansas's rice growing industry, is located on the

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in northern Arkansas County. It began as a colony of German immigrants, and is one of two county seats in Arkansas County alongside DeWitt.

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* German-American culture in Arkansas Newspapers published in Arkansas Daily Leader Newspapers established in 1885 1885 establishments in Arkansas Daily newspapers published in the United States Gannett publications {{arkansas-newspaper-stub