Telluride Daily Planet Explained

Telluride Daily Planet
Type:Daily newspaper
Owners:Thirteenth Street Media
Foundation:1898
Language:English
Headquarters:Telluride, Colorado

The Telluride Daily Planet is a local newspaper published in Telluride, Colorado which covers news and events in the Telluride area. It is published three days a week, on Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. According to the masthead, it has been publishing since 1898 and has incorporated two other newspapers, the Telluride Times and the Telluride Journal.

In 1998, the Daily Planet was sold by its local ownership to Texas-based American Consolidated Media.[1] In 2001, ACM sold its Colorado papers to Womack Publishing.[2] In 2005, Womack sold the papers to GateHouse Media.[3] This newspaper is owned by Thirteenth Street Media, who bought the paper from GateHouse in 2008, and has a circulation of about 5,000 copies.[4]

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  1. Book: Roberts . Gene . Gene Roberts (journalist) . Kunkel . Thomas . Layton . Charles . 2001 . Leaving Readers Behind: The Age of Corporate Newspapering . . . 1610752325.
  2. http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2001/07/02/daily35.html Southwestern Colorado newspapers sold
  3. http://www.dirksvanessen.com/articles/view/27/3rd-quarter-2008/ 3rd Quarter 2008
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20131226182956/http://business.highbeam.com/4130/article-1G1-182206241/gatehouse-media-sells-telluride-paper GateHouse Media Sells Telluride Paper