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The Norfolk Weekly News-Journal – Norfolk (1900–1912) [17] The Norfolk weekly news – Norfolk (1899–1900) [18] The North Platte Semi-Weekly Tribune – North Platte (1895–1922) [19] The North Platte Tribune – North Platte (1890–1894) [20] Omaha Chronicle – Omaha (1933–1938) Omaha Daily Bee – Omaha (1872–1927; Omaha Bee-News ...
The Daily Nonpareil is southwest Iowa's largest newspaper. [2] It was founded on May 2, 1857. [3]The paper was acquired in 2011 by Berkshire Hathaway, when it bought the paper's then parent, the Omaha World-Herald and its other subsidiary newspapers in Kearney, Grand Island, York, North Platte, and Scottsbluff, Nebraska. [4]
North Platte is the principal city of the North Platte television market which includes three counties in west-central Nebraska: Lincoln County, Logan County, and McPherson County. [8] The following is a list of television stations that broadcast from and/or are licensed to the city.
Lincoln County Tribune – North Platte (1885–1890) [citation needed] The McCook Tribune (1885–1912) [313] McCook weekly tribune (1883–1885) [314] Nebraska Advertiser – Brownville (1856–1899) [315] The Nebraska Advertiser – Nemaha City (1899–1908) [citation needed] Nebraska Palladium – St. Mary, Iowa (1854–1855) [316] Nebraska ...
Unlike these metropolitan newspapers, a weekly newspaper will cover a smaller area, such as one or more smaller towns or an entire county. Most weekly newspapers follow a similar format as daily newspapers (i.e., news, sports, family news, obituaries). However, the primary focus is on news from the publication's coverage area.
North Platte was established in 1866 when the Union Pacific Railroad was extended to that point. [6] It derives its name from the North Platte River. [7] [8]North Platte was the western terminus of the Union Pacific Railway from December 1866 until the next section to Ogallala was opened the following year. [9]
In 1869, Maggie Eberhart and Seth Mobley founded the Platte Valley Independent in North Platte.Eberhart, whose parents had immigrated from Ireland in her infancy, had been a teacher; [3] Mobley had begun working in a newspaper office in Iowa at the age of 10, and had briefly published the Fort Kearney Herald, [4] while stationed at Fort Kearny, Nebraska in 1865. [5]
In 1897, J.C. Seacrest, a former reporter for the Nebraska State Journal, purchased the Lincoln Evening News, which was published by the State Journal as an evening edition. [4] By 1922, Seacrest had changed the name of the Lincoln Evening News to the Lincoln Evening Journal and become the majority owner of the State Journal Company. [ 4 ]