The Port Arthur News

The Port Arthur News
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Boone Newspapers
Publisher	Stephen Hemelt
Editor	Monique Batson
Sports editor	Chris Moore
Founded	March 17, 1897
Headquarters	2349 Memorial Blvd., Port Arthur, Texas 77640
Circulation	2,529 (as of 2023)^[1]
Website	PAnews.com

The Port Arthur News is a six-day morning newspaper published every day except Mondays in Port Arthur, Texas covering Jefferson County. It is owned by Boone Newspapers.

History

The newspaper has not missed an issue since March 17, 1897, when the Stump family who were leaving Missouri, printed the first weekly edition in a baggage car of a train on the way to their new home. The News became a daily publication except for Sunday in 1901; a Sunday edition was added in 1916 (although it was later abandoned, and then reintroduced). By 1920, all of the other Port Arthur newspapers had folded or been bought out by The News.

A Texas newspaper chain which was begun by E.S. Fentress and Charles Marsh bought The News in 1921, overseeing headquarters and press improvements, until Cox Enterprises bought it in 1976. Cox converted The News from an afternoon paper to morning publication in 1986. In 1991, Cox sold The News, along with its sister paper The Orange Leader, to American Publishing Company which dealt them to Community Newspaper Holdings in 1999.^[2] The two papers were sold to Boone Newspapers Inc. in 2014.^[3]

References

^ "2023 Texas Newspaper Directory". Texas Press Association. Archived from the original on 2023-05-03. Retrieved 2023-05-03.
^ PAnews.com: Port Arthur News history, accessed January 20, 2007.
^ Dirks, Van Essen & Murray (November 5, 2014). "Boone Affiliates Acquire Texas Newspapers". Editor & Publisher. Retrieved February 7, 2015.