List of newspapers in West Virginia explained

This is a list of newspapers in West Virginia, sorted by location.

Daily and nondaily newspapers

TitleLocaleYear est.FrequencyPublisher/parent companyNotes
Barbour Democrat 1893[1] Nondaily
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Bluefield1893[2] DailyCNHI, LLC
Braxton Citizens' NewsSutton1976[3] Nondaily
Braxton DemocratSutton1883[4] Nondaily
Brooke County ReviewWellsburg1911[5] [6] Nondaily
Calhoun ChronicleGrantsville1883[7] Nondaily
Charleston Gazette-Mail Charleston1872[8] [9] Tue - SunHD Media[10] Major newspaper
Clay Free Press Clay1905[11] Nondaily
Coal Valley NewsMadison1925[12] NondailyHD Media[13]
Doddridge IndependentWest UnionNondaily
Dominion Post Morgantown1863[14] DailyMajor newspaper
Exponent-Telegram Clarksburg1874[15] Daily
Fayette TribuneOak Hill1883[16] M/Th
Glenville DemocratGlenville1904[17] Nondaily
Glenville PathfinderGlenville1892[18] Nondaily
Good News PaperShepherdstown1979[19] Nondaily
Grant County PressPetersburg1896[20] Nondaily
Greenbrier Valley RangerLewisburgNondaily
Hashtag Lewisburg WV City PaperLewisburg2012MonthlyPublisherCity paper
Hampshire ReviewRomney1884[21] Nondaily
Herald RecordWest Union1885[22] Nondaily
Herald-Dispatch HuntingtonDailyMajor newspaper
Intelligencer Wheeling1852[23] DailyOgden Newspapers Inc.Major newspaper
Inter-Mountain ElkinsDailyOgden Newspapers Inc.
Jackson County CitizenNondaily
Jackson Herald NondailyGateHouse Media
Jackson Star NewsRavenswoodNondaily
Journal MartinsburgDailyOgden Newspapers Inc.
Logan Banner LoganDaily HD Media
Mineral Daily News-Tribune KeyserDailyGateHouse Media
Monroe WatchmanUnion
Morgan MessengerBerkeley SpringsNondaily
Moundsville Daily EchoMoundsville1891WeeklyMoundsville Echo, LLC
Mountain MessengerLewisburgNondaily
Mountain StatesmanGraftonNondaily
Nicholas ChronicleSummersville1880[24] Nondaily
The ObserverShepherdstownMonthly
Parkersburg News and Sentinel ParkersburgDailyOgden Newspapers Inc.Major newspaper
Parsons AdvocateParsons1886Weekly
Pendleton TimesFranklin1913WeeklyPendleton Times LLC
Pennsboro NewsPennsboroNondaily
Pineville Independent HeraldPineville1912Weekly
Pleasants County LeaderSt. MarysNondaily
Pocahontas TimesMarlintonNondaily
Point Pleasant Register Point Pleasant1862Daily
Princeton Times PrincetonNondaily CNHI, LLC
Putnam Standard CullodenNondaily
Record Delta BuckhannonNondaily
Register-Herald Beckley1985DailyCNHI, LLCMajor newspaper
Ritchie GazetteHarrisvilleNondaily
SentinelSalemNondaily
Shepherdstown Chronicle ShepherdstownOgden Newspapers Inc.
The Shinnston News and Harrison County JournalShinnston1898NondailyHarrison County Publishing Co
Spirit of Jefferson and Farmer's AdvocateCharles Town1844Nondaily
St. Marys OracleSt. MarysNondaily
State Journal CharlestonNondaily
Sunday News-Register WheelingDaily
Times West Virginian FairmontDailyCNHI, LLCMajor newspaper
Tyler Star NewsSistersvilleNondailyOgden Newspapers Inc.
Wayne County News WayneDaily
Weirton Daily Times WeirtonDailyOgden Newspapers Inc.
Welch NewsWelchNondaily
West Virginia Daily News LewisburgDaily
West Virginia Queer News ParkersburgDaily
Wetzel ChronicleNew MartinsvilleNondailyOgden Newspapers Inc.
Wheeling News-Register WheelingDailyOgden Newspapers Inc.Major newspaper
Williamson Daily News WilliamsonDaily HD Media
Wirt County Journal Elizabeth1908Daily
WV Statewide NewsCharleston2022NondailyMediaWorxWV's Conservative News Source

College newspapers

Marshall University, Huntington

West Virginia University, Morgantown

Shepherd University, Shepherdstown

Defunct newspapers

TitleLocaleYear est.Year ceasedFrequency
Cabell StandardCulloden2015Nondaily
Charleston AdvocateCharlestonVol. 9 was published in 1910.Weekly
Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston Gazette
Huntington Advertiser1979
Industrial NewsIaeger19232017
Richwood News Leader[27]
La Sentinella del West Virginia (Thomas19051913[28]
Virginia Argus and Hampshire AdvertiserRomney18501861[29] Nondaily
West Virginia Hillbilly

See also

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: About Barbour Democrat. Chronicling America. Library of Congress.
  2. Web site: About Bluefield Daily Telegraph. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
  3. News: New Braxton County Weekly Begins Publication on Monday. 8 February 1976. Sunday Gazette-Mail. Charleston, West Virginia.
  4. Web site: About Braxton Democrat. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
  5. Web site: About Mill Town Review. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
  6. News: [Plate]]. 11 August 1994. Brooke County Review.
  7. Web site: About Calhoun Chronicle. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
  8. Web site: About The Kanawha Chronicle. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
  9. Web site: Our History. Charleston Gazette-Mail.
  10. News: Bankruptcy Judge Approves Sale of Gazette-Mail to HD Media. 9 March 2018. Charleston Gazette-Mail.
  11. Web site: About Clay County Free Press. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
  12. News: About Coal Valley News. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
  13. Web site: About Us. Coal Valley News.
  14. News: About Morgantown Monitor. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspaper. Library of Congress.
  15. News: About The Clarksburg Telegram. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
  16. News: About Fayette democrat. (Fayetteville, W. Va.) 1883-189?
    Fayetteville, W. Va. (1883-189?)
    . Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. 10 August 2018.
  17. News: About The Glenville democrat. (Glenville, W. Va.). Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. 10 August 2018.
  18. News: About The Glenville pathfinder. (Glenville, W. Va.). Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. 10 August 2018.
  19. Web site: Summer 2018 Issue. Good News Paper.
  20. News: About Grant County press. (Petersburg, W. Va.). Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. 10 August 2018.
  21. News: About The Hampshire review.. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. 10 August 2018.
  22. News: About West Union herald.. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. 10 August 2018.
  23. Encyclopedia: West Virginia Encyclopedia . Charleston, WV . West Virginia Humanities Council . Newspapers . Harold Malcolm Forbes . 23 February 2017 .
  24. Web site: The Nicholas Chronicle . nicholaschronicle.com.
  25. News: WVU student newspaper to stop printing daily. 29 May 2016. Charleston Gazette-Mail.
  26. News: The Picket . 2019-08-07 . en-US.
  27. Web site: West Virginia Hillbilly . 5 April 2015 . West Virginia Encyclopedia.
  28. News: About La sentinella del West Virginia. (Thomas, W. Va.) 1905–1913 . 8 April 2017 . Library of Congress.
  29. Web site: Washington DC . . Library of Congress . US Newspaper Directory: West Virginia . February 23, 2017 .
  30. News: Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications . W. Page Pitt School of Journalism & Mass Communications . Marshall University . Huntington, WV . March 22, 2017 .