Bogalusa Daily News

The Bogalusa Daily News is a newspaper established in 1927 and still published in Bogalusa, Louisiana in the United States of America.

Bogalusa Daily News
TypeTri-weekly paper
Owner(s)Boone Newspapers
Founded1927
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersBogalusa, Louisiana
Websitewww.gobogalusa.com

Publication history

Establishment

The Bogalusa Daily News is published in Bogalusa, the largest city in Washington Parish, one of the Florida Parishes of southeastern Louisiana bordering Mississippi.

In addition to Washington Parish, The Daily News circulates in northern St. Tammany Parish. In 1958, The Daily News became a property of Wick Communications, a family-owned newspaper company based in Sierra Vista in Cochise County in southeastern Arizona, and formerly known as the Wick Newspaper Group.[1] There were three other Wick Communications newspapers in Louisiana, including the Daily Iberian in New Iberia.

Development

From 1948, to 1955, Tom Colten, was the business manager of The Daily News. After his time in Bogalusa, he moved to Minden, where he owned and operated two weekly newspapers, the Minden Press and the Minden Herald,[2] which were combined into an afternoon daily, the Minden Press-Herald on July 18, 1966.[3] On November 8, I966. Colten was elected mayor of Minden;[4] he remained in that capacity until 1974 and subsequently moved to Baton Rouge, where he was assistant secretary of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development.[5]

Newspaper today

As of October 2013, Sandy Cunningham is publisher/editor of The Daily News; Carol Case, the advertising director; Cindy Slocum, production manager, and Mildred Newman, business office manager. The Daily News is available by delivery in Bogalusa and surrounding areas, through mail, or the Internet.[1]

The paper is currently published three days a week, with editions seeing print on Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday.

In 2014, Wick sold the Daily News and L’Observateur of LaPlace to Carpenter Newsmedia, an affiliate of Boone Newspapers of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.[6]

Footnotes
  1. "About Us". gobogalusa.com. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
  2. Minden Press, January 29, 1962, p.1
  3. Minden Press-Herald, July 18, 1966
  4. "Tom Colten Elected Mayor of Minden: Challenger Takes Seven of Ten City Precincts to Win in General Election", Minden Press-Herald, November 9, 1966, p. 1
  5. Minden Press-Herald, December 6, 2004, p. 1
  6. "MONEY: Two Wick Newspapers to be sold". The Sierra Vista Herald. 2014-03-30. Archived from the original on 2014-06-22. Retrieved 2014-06-22.
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