List of newspapers in West Virginia

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

Daily and nondaily newspapers

Title	Locale	Year est.	Frequency	Publisher/parent company	Notes
Barbour Democrat	Philippi	1893^[1]	Nondaily
Black By God	Charleston	2000^[2]
Bluefield Daily Telegraph	Bluefield	1893^[3]	Daily	CNHI^[4]
Braxton Citizens' News	Sutton	1976^[5]	Nondaily
Braxton Democrat	Sutton	1883^[6]	Nondaily
Brooke County Review	Wellsburg	1911^[7]^[8]	Nondaily
Calhoun Chronicle	Grantsville	1883^[9]	Nondaily
Charleston Gazette-Mail	Charleston	1872^[10]^[11]	Tue - Sun	HD Media^[12]	Major newspaper^[13]
Clay Free Press	Clay	1905^[14]	Nondaily
Coal Valley News	Madison	1925^[15]	Nondaily	HD Media^[16]
Doddridge Independent	West Union		Nondaily
Dominion Post	Morgantown	1863^[17]	Daily	Ogden Newspapers Inc.	Major newspaper
Exponent-Telegram	Clarksburg	1874^[18]	Daily	NCWV Media
Fayette Tribune	Oak Hill	1883^[19]	M/Th
Glenville Democrat	Glenville	1904^[20]	Nondaily
Glenville Pathfinder	Glenville	1892^[21]	Nondaily
Good News Paper	Shepherdstown	1979^[22]	Nondaily
Grant County Press	Petersburg	1896^[23]	Nondaily
Greenbrier Valley Ranger	Lewisburg		Nondaily
Hashtag Lewisburg WV City Paper	Lewisburg	2012	Monthly		City paper
Hampshire Review	Romney	1884^[24]	Nondaily
Herald Record	West Union	1885^[25]	Nondaily
Herald-Dispatch	Huntington		Daily		Major newspaper^[13]
Intelligencer	Wheeling	1852^[13]	Daily	Ogden Newspapers Inc.^[26]	Major newspaper
Inter-Mountain	Elkins		Daily	Ogden Newspapers Inc.^[26]
Jackson County Citizen	Ripley		Nondaily
Jackson Herald	Ripley		Nondaily	NCWV Media^[27]
Jackson Star News	Ravenswood		Nondaily
Journal	Martinsburg		Daily	Ogden Newspapers Inc.^[26]
Logan Banner	Logan		Daily	HD Media
Mineral Daily News-Tribune	Keyser		Daily	NCWV Media^[27]
Monroe Watchman	Union
Morgan Messenger	Berkeley Springs		Nondaily
Moundsville Daily Echo	Moundsville	1891	Weekly	Moundsville Echo, LLC
Mountain Messenger	Lewisburg		Nondaily
Mountain Statesman	Grafton	1870	Nondaily	NCWV Media
Nicholas Chronicle	Summersville	1880^[28]	Nondaily
The Observer	Shepherdstown		Monthly
Parkersburg News and Sentinel	Parkersburg		Daily	Ogden Newspapers Inc.^[26]	Major newspaper^[13]
Parsons Advocate	Parsons	1886	Weekly
Pendleton Times	Franklin	1913	Weekly	Pendleton Times LLC
Pennsboro News	Pennsboro		Nondaily
Pineville Independent Herald	Pineville	1912	Weekly
Pleasants County Leader	St. Marys		Nondaily
Pocahontas Times	Marlinton		Nondaily
Point Pleasant Register	Point Pleasant	1862^[13]	Daily
Princeton Times	Princeton		Nondaily	CNHI^[4]
Putnam Standard	Culloden		Nondaily
Record Delta	Buckhannon		Nondaily
Register-Herald	Beckley	1985	Daily	CNHI^[4]	Major newspaper^[13]
Ritchie Gazette	Harrisville		Nondaily
Sentinel	Salem		Nondaily
Shepherdstown Chronicle	Shepherdstown			Ogden Newspapers Inc.^[26]
The Shinnston News and Harrison County Journal	Shinnston	1898	Nondaily	Harrison County Publishing Co
Spirit of Jefferson and Farmer's Advocate	Charles Town	1844	Nondaily
St. Marys Oracle	St. Marys		Nondaily
State Journal	Charleston	1984	Nondaily	NCWV Media
Sunday News-Register	Wheeling		Daily
Times West Virginian	Fairmont		Daily	CNHI^[4]	Major newspaper
Tyler Star News	Sistersville		Nondaily	Ogden Newspapers Inc.^[26]
Wayne County News	Wayne		Daily
Weirton Daily Times	Weirton		Daily	Ogden Newspapers Inc.^[26]
Welch News	Welch		Nondaily
West Virginia Daily News	Lewisburg		Daily
Weston Democrat	Weston	1868	Weekly	NCWV Media
West Virginia Queer News	Parkersburg		Daily
Wetzel Chronicle	New Martinsville		Nondaily	Ogden Newspapers Inc.^[26]
Wheeling News-Register	Wheeling		Daily	Ogden Newspapers Inc.^[26]	Major newspaper
Williamson Daily News	Williamson		Daily	HD Media
Wirt County Journal	Elizabeth	1908	Daily
WV Statewide News	Charleston	2022	Nondaily	MediaWorx	WV's Conservative News Source

College newspapers

Marshall University, Huntington

The Parthenon

West Virginia University, Morgantown

The Athenaeum^[29]

Shepherd University, Shepherdstown

The Picket^[30]

Defunct newspapers

Title	Locale	Year est.	Year ceased	Frequency
Cabell Standard	Culloden		2015	Nondaily
Charleston Advocate	Charleston	Vol. 9 was published in 1910.		Weekly
Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston Gazette
Huntington Advertiser			1979
Industrial News	Iaeger	1923	2017
Richwood News Leader^[31]
La Sentinella del West Virginia	(Thomas	1905	1913	^[32]
Virginia Argus and Hampshire Advertiser	Romney	1850	1861^[33]	Nondaily
West Virginia Hillbilly^[31]

References

^ "About Barbour Democrat". Chronicling America. Library of Congress.
^ "Black by God". Black by God.
^ "About Bluefield Daily Telegraph". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc., Locations: West Virginia, Montgomery, Alabama, retrieved April 10, 2017
^ "New Braxton County Weekly Begins Publication on Monday". Sunday Gazette-Mail. Charleston, West Virginia. 8 February 1976.
^ "About Braxton Democrat". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
^ "About Mill Town Review". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
^ "[Plate]". Brooke County Review. 11 August 1994.
^ "About Calhoun Chronicle". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
^ "About The Kanawha Chronicle". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
^ "Our History". Charleston Gazette-Mail.
^ "Bankruptcy Judge Approves Sale of Gazette-Mail to HD Media". Charleston Gazette-Mail. 9 March 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Harold Malcolm Forbes. "Newspapers". West Virginia Encyclopedia. Charleston, WV: West Virginia Humanities Council. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
^ "About Clay County Free Press". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
^ "About Coal Valley News". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
^ "About Us". Coal Valley News.
^ "About Morgantown Monitor". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspaper. Library of Congress.
^ "About The Clarksburg Telegram". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
^ "About Fayette democrat. (Fayetteville, W. Va.) 1883-189?
Fayetteville, W. Va. (1883-189?)". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
^ "About The Glenville democrat. (Glenville, W. Va.)". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
^ "About The Glenville pathfinder. (Glenville, W. Va.)". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
^ "Summer 2018 Issue". Good News Paper.
^ "About Grant County press. (Petersburg, W. Va.)". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
^ "About The Hampshire review". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
^ "About West Union herald". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Ogden Newspapers Inc., Locations: West Virginia, Wheeling, WV, retrieved March 27, 2017
^ ^a ^b "WV News expands with purchase of Mineral Daily News-Tribune of Keyser, Jackson Star and Jackson Herald". WV News. 2022-04-04. Retrieved 2024-09-14.
^ "The Nicholas Chronicle". nicholaschronicle.com.
^ "WVU student newspaper to stop printing daily". Charleston Gazette-Mail. 29 May 2016.
^ "The Picket". Retrieved 2019-08-07.
^ ^a ^b "West Virginia Hillbilly". West Virginia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
^ "About La sentinella del West Virginia. (Thomas, W. Va.) 1905–1913". Library of Congress. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
^ "US Newspaper Directory: West Virginia". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
^ "Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications". W. Page Pitt School of Journalism & Mass Communications. Huntington, WV: Marshall University. Retrieved March 22, 2017.

Bibliography

S. N. D. North; United States Department of the Interior (1884). "Catalogue of Periodical Publications: West Virginia". History and Present Condition of the Newspaper and Periodical Press of the United States. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. OCLC 1850475.
"West Virginia". American Newspaper Directory. New York: George P. Rowell. 1900. pp. 1084+. hdl:2027/umn.31951002273861a – via HathiTrust.
"West Virginia". American Newspaper Annual & Directory. Philadelphia: N. W. Ayer & Son. 1922. pp. 1043+. hdl:2027/umn.31951001295695n.
Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Newspapers", West Virginia: A Guide to the Mountain State, American Guide Series, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 112+, ISBN 9781603540476 – via Google Books
Otis K. Rice (July 1953). "West Virginia Printers and their Work, 1790-1830". West Virginia History. West Virginia Historical Society. ISSN 0043-325X.
Delf Norona (1958). West Virginia Imprints, 1790-1863: A Checklist of Books, Newspapers, Periodicals and Broadsides. Moundsville: West Virginia Library Association. OCLC 863601 – via Internet Archive.
G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). "General Studies: West Virginia". Guide to the Study of United States Imprints. Harvard University Press. p. 886. ISBN 978-0-674-36761-6. (Includes information about newspapers)
Harold M. Forbes (1981), "The Press and Printing" (PDF), West Virginia History: A Bibliography and Guide to Research, West Virginia University Press
Harold M. Forbes (1989). West Virginia Newspapers, 1790-1990: A Union List. Morgantown: West Virginia University Library. OCLC 20336545.
Betty L. Powell Hart (1991). "Spicy Editorials and Fearless Sayings: The Black Press in West Virginia". Appalachian Heritage. 19 (4): 51–55. doi:10.1353/aph.1991.0120. S2CID 201761388.
Edgar Simpson (2011). "Pressing the Press". Journalism History. 36. (About newspaper industry in W. Virginia)

External links

"West Virginia Newspapers". Historical U.S. Newspapers Online. Library Guides. Ohio: Bowling Green State University. Newspapers that are freely available on the Internet
West Virginia State Archives. "Newspapers on Microfilm". West Virginia Division of Culture and History.
University of Florida. "West Virginia". NewspaperCat: Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers. Gainesville.
"West Virginia". N-Net: the Newspaper Network on the World Wide Web. Archived from the original on February 15, 1997.
"West Virginia Newspapers". AJR News Link. American Journalism Review. Archived from the original on November 16, 1999.
"United States: West Virginia". NewsDirectory.com. Toronto: Tucows Inc. Archived from the original on November 18, 2001.

[1] "About Barbour Democrat". Chronicling America. Library of Congress.

[2] "Black by God". Black by God.

[3] "About Bluefield Daily Telegraph". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.

[CNHI-4] Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc., Locations: West Virginia, Montgomery, Alabama, retrieved April 10, 2017

[5] "New Braxton County Weekly Begins Publication on Monday". Sunday Gazette-Mail. Charleston, West Virginia. 8 February 1976.

[6] "About Braxton Democrat". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.

[7] "About Mill Town Review". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.

[8] "[Plate]". Brooke County Review. 11 August 1994.

[9] "About Calhoun Chronicle". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.

[10] "About The Kanawha Chronicle". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.

[11] "Our History". Charleston Gazette-Mail.

[12] "Bankruptcy Judge Approves Sale of Gazette-Mail to HD Media". Charleston Gazette-Mail. 9 March 2018.

[WVHC-13] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Harold Malcolm Forbes. "Newspapers". West Virginia Encyclopedia. Charleston, WV: West Virginia Humanities Council. Retrieved 23 February 2017.

[14] "About Clay County Free Press". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.

[15] "About Coal Valley News". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.

[16] "About Us". Coal Valley News.

[17] "About Morgantown Monitor". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspaper. Library of Congress.

[18] "About The Clarksburg Telegram". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.

[19] "About Fayette democrat. (Fayetteville, W. Va.) 1883-189?
Fayetteville, W. Va. (1883-189?)". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. Retrieved 10 August 2018.

[20] "About The Glenville democrat. (Glenville, W. Va.)". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Retrieved 10 August 2018.

[21] "About The Glenville pathfinder. (Glenville, W. Va.)". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. Retrieved 10 August 2018.

[22] "Summer 2018 Issue". Good News Paper.

[23] "About Grant County press. (Petersburg, W. Va.)". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. Retrieved 10 August 2018.

[24] "About The Hampshire review". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Retrieved 10 August 2018.

[25] "About West Union herald". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. Retrieved 10 August 2018.

[Ogden-26] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Ogden Newspapers Inc., Locations: West Virginia, Wheeling, WV, retrieved March 27, 2017

[:0-27] "WV News expands with purchase of Mineral Daily News-Tribune of Keyser, Jackson Star and Jackson Herald". WV News. 2022-04-04. Retrieved 2024-09-14.

[28] "The Nicholas Chronicle". nicholaschronicle.com.

[29] "WVU student newspaper to stop printing daily". Charleston Gazette-Mail. 29 May 2016.

[30] "The Picket". Retrieved 2019-08-07.

[wvencyclopedia1-31] "West Virginia Hillbilly". West Virginia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 5 April 2015.

[32] "About La sentinella del West Virginia. (Thomas, W. Va.) 1905–1913". Library of Congress. Retrieved 8 April 2017.

[LOC-33] "US Newspaper Directory: West Virginia". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved February 23, 2017.

[34] "Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications". W. Page Pitt School of Journalism & Mass Communications. Huntington, WV: Marshall University. Retrieved March 22, 2017.

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List of newspapers in West Virginia

Contents

Daily and nondaily newspapers

College newspapers

Defunct newspapers

See also

References

Bibliography

External links