The Huntsville Item
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. |
| Publisher | Amy Lee |
| Editor | Lisa Trow |
| Founded | 1850 |
| Headquarters | 1409 Tenth Street Huntsville, Texas 77342  United States |
| Circulation | 5,506 daily[1] |
| ISSN | 0888-4145 |
| Official website | itemonline.com |
The Huntsville Item is a seven-day morning daily newspaper published in Huntsville, Texas, covering Walker County in East Texas. It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
Founded in 1850, The Item reportedly is the second oldest continuously published newspaper in Texas. It has been headquartered across from the old Huntsville post office, on the banks of Town Creek, since the late 1960s.[2]
The Woodall family sold the paper to Harte Hanks in the 1960s. Harte Hanks sold the paper to Media News Group in the early 1980s, which sold it to The Thomson Corporation in the late 1980s. The Thomson Corporation sold The Huntsville Item, along with 11 other papers, to the American Publishing Company (later Hollinger International) in 1995. Hollinger sold off most of its small papers in 1999, and The Huntsville Item went to Community Newspaper Holdings.
In addition to The Item, the newspaper publishes a monthly entertainment magazine aimed at university students, ITZ (In the Zone).
The Item's presses also print two college newspapers, The Battalion of Texas A&M University, and The Houstonian of Sam Houston State University.[2]
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[edit] References
- ^ CNHI-CAN Circulation, figures for an undetermined date, accessed January 20, 2007.
- ^ a b Itemonline.com: About Us, accessed January 20, 2007.
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