List of newspapers in Georgia (U.S. state)

This is a list of newspapers in Georgia, US.

21st century[]

Daily and weekly newspapers (currently published)[]

Title	Locale	Year est.	Frequency	Publisher/parent company	Notes
Advance	Vidalia
Albany Herald	Albany		Sunday - Friday	Southern Community Newspapers, Inc. (SCNI)	Newspaper in Albany, Georgia, United States, and serves as the county's official legal organ.
Alma Times	Alma		Weekly
Athens Banner-Herald^[1]	Athens		Daily	Morris Communications Company^[2]
Americus Times-Recorder	Americus		Daily
Atkinson County Citizen	Atkinson		Weekly
Atlanta Daily World	Atlanta		Weekly
Atlanta Inquirer	Atlanta		Weekly
Atlanta Journal-Constitution	Atlanta	1868^[3]	Daily^[4]		Began as Constitution in 1868; merged with Journal in 2001 to form Journal-Constitution
Atlanta Voice	Atlanta	1966	Weekly
Augusta Chronicle^[1]	Augusta	1785^[3]	Daily	Morris Communications Company^[2]	Began as Augusta Gazette in 1785
Barnesville Herald-Gazette	Barnesville	1867	Weekly
Berrien Press	Nashville		Weekly
Blackshear Times	Blackshear		Weekly
Brunswick News	Brunswick		Daily
Bryan County News	Fitzgerald		Weekly
	Cairo
Calhoun Times	Calhoun	1870	Weekly	Times Journal Inc.
	Camilla
Catoosa County News	Ringgold		Weekly
Champion Newspaper	Decatur		Weekly
Charlton County Herald	Folkston		Weekly
Cherokee Tribune & Ledger	Canton		Daily
Citizen	Fayetteville		Weekly
	Jonesboro	1950	Wednesday	Southern Community Newspapers, Inc. (SCNI)	Published once a week newspaper in Clayton County, Georgia, United States, and serves as the county's official legal organ.
	Clayton, Georgia		Weekly
Clinch County News	Homerville		Weekly
	Hinesville, Georgia		Weekly
Cochran Journal	Cochran		Weekly
Colonnade	Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville		Weekly
Cordele Dispatch	Cordele		Tuesdays-Fridays & Sundays
Courier Herald	Dublin	1876	Weekly
Covington News	Covington		Wednesday, Friday & Sunday
Creative Loafing	Atlanta		Weekly
	South DeKalb/East Metro Atlanta		Weekly
Dahlonega Nugget	Dahlonega	1890	Weekly	Community Newspapers Holdings Inc.
Daily Citizen	Dalton		Daily	Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.^[5]
Daily Tribune News	Cartersville		Daily
Dawson County News	Dawsonville		Weekly
Dodge County News	Eastman		Weekly
	Donalsonville
Douglas Enterprise	Douglas		Weekly
Dunwoody Crier	Alpharetta		Weekly	Appen Media Group
	Blakely
Effingham Herald	Rincon		Weekly
Elberton Star	Elberton		Weekly
	Blue Ridge		Weekly
Forest-Blade	Swainsboro		Weekly
Forsyth County News			Wed/Fri/Sun
Franklin County Citizen-Leader	Lavonia		Weekly
Fulton County Daily Report^[1]	Atlanta
George-Anne	Georgia Southern University, Statesboro		Weekly
	Georgia
Georgia Post	Roberta		Weekly
Gwinnett Daily Post	Lawrenceville		Wednesday, Friday & Sunday	Southern Community Newspapers, Inc. (SCNI)	Newspaper in Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States, and serves as the county's official legal organ.
Hartwell Sun	Hartwell
	McDonough	1847	Wednesday, Saturday/Sunday	Southern Community Newspapers, Inc. (SCNI)	Henry County’s News Source Since 1874. Published twice weekly newspaper in McDonough, Georgia, United States, and serves as the county's official legal organ.
Herald-Leader	Fitzgerald		Weekly
Houston Home Journal	Perry		Weekly
Jackson Herald	Jefferson		Weekly	MainStreet Newspapers Inc.
Jackson Progress-Argus	Jackson		Wednesday	Southern Community Newspapers, Inc. (SCNI)	Newspaper in Jonesboro, Georgia, United States, and serves as the county's official legal organ.
Jeff Davis Ledger	Hazlehurst		Weekly
Jones County News	Gray	1895	Weekly
LaGrange Daily News	LaGrange
Lake Oconee Breeze	Milledgeville		Weekly
Lanier County News	Lakeland		Weekly
Ledger-Enquirer^[1]	Columbus	1828^[3]	Daily	McClatchy Company^[6]	Began as Columbus Enquirer in 1828, became daily Ledger-Enquirer in 1988
Marietta Daily Journal	Marietta
	Colquitt
	Madison
Metter Advertiser	Metter		Weekly
Monticello News	Monticello		Weekly
Moultrie Observer	Moultrie			Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.^[5]
Newnan Times-Herald	Newnan
News-Observer	Blue Ridge		Weekly
News-Reporter	Washington		Weekly	Wilkes Publishing Co., Inc.	Merger of The Washington News and The Washington Reporter
Northeast Georgian	Cornelia		Weekly	Community Newspapers Inc.
Ocilla Star	Ocilla
	Pelham
	Bainbridge
Quitman Free Press	Quitman		Weekly
Red and Black	University of Georgia, Athens		Weekly
	Conyers		Wednesday & Sunday	Southern Community Newspapers, Inc. (SCNI)	Newspaper in Conyers, Georgia, United States, and serves as Rockdale county's official legal organ.
Rockdale News	Conyers		Saturday
Rome News-Tribune	Rome		Daily
Savannah Morning News^[1]	Savannah	1850^[3]	Daily	Morris Communications Company^[2]
Statesboro Herald	Statesboro		Daily
Technique	Georgia Tech, Atlanta		Weekly
Telegraph^[1]	Macon		Daily	McClatchy Company^[6]
Thomasville Times-Enterprise	Thomasville		Daily	Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.^[5]
Tifton Gazette	Tifton		Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays	Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.^[5]
Times-Courier	Ellijay	1875	Weekly	Times-Courier Publishing Co.
Times-Georgian	Carrollton		Daily
	Toccoa	1873^[7]	Weekly	Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.^[5]
Tribune and Georgian	St. Marys		Weekly
True Citizen	Waynesboro		Weekly
Union Recorder	Milledgeville		Daily	Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.^[5]
Valdosta Daily Times	Valdosta		Daily	Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.^[5]
	Waycross		Daily
	Alamo
Wiregrass Farmer	Ashburn
	Georgia	2014	Daily	TNA, LLC	African-American online and Newspaper

18th century[]

Newspapers published in 18th-century Augusta, Georgia

Augusta Herald. W., July 17, 1799-Dec. 31, 1800+^[8]
Georgia. The Augusta Chronicle And Gazette Of The State. W., Apr. 11, 1789-Dec. 27, 1800+^[8]^[9]
The Georgia State Gazette, Or, Independent Register. W., Sept. 30, 1786-Apr. 11, 1789.^[8]
Southern Centinel And Gazette Of The State. W., Dec. 5, 1793-Nov. 7, 1799.^[8]

Newspapers published in 18th-century Savannah, Georgia

Columbian Museum & Savannah Advertiser. S.W., Mar. 4, 1796-Dec. 29, 1800+^[8]
The Gazette Of The State Of Georgia. W., Jan. 30, 1783-Oct. 16, 1788.^[8]
The Georgia Gazette. W., Apr. 7, 1763-Feb. 7, 1776.^[8]^[10]
Georgia Gazette. W., Oct. 23, 1788-Dec. 25, 1800+^[8]
The Royal Georgia Gazette. W., Jan. 21, 1779-June 6, 1782.^[8]

Georgia Gazette, 1763
Columbian Museum & Savannah Advertiser, 1796

Defunct[]

Title	Locale	Year est.	Ceased	Notes
Atlanta Georgian	Atlanta	1906^[3]	1939^[11]
Atlanta Southern Confederacy
Colored American	Augusta	1865^[12]
Columbus Messenger	Columbus	1887^[12]
Daily Intelligencer	Atlanta
Daily Sun
Great Speckled Bird	Atlanta
Luminary
	Milledgeville			Was being published in 1835.

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Newspaper Directory". Atlanta: Georgia Press Association. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Daily Newspapers". Augusta, Georgia: Morris Communications Company. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Southern Press". The South in the Building of the Nation. 7. Richmond, VA: Southern Historical Publication Society. 1909. pp. 402–436. hdl:2027/yale.39002004114386. Date of establishment of leading Southern newspapers
^ "U.S. Daily Newspapers, 2012". World Almanac and Book of Facts 2014. The World Almanac and Book of Facts Tr. USA: World Almanac Books. ISSN 0084-1382. via Google Books
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc., Locations: Georgia, Montgomery, Alabama, retrieved March 27, 2017
^ ^a ^b "Our Markets". Sacramento, California: McClatchy Company. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
^ "About Us". The Toccoa Record. Community Newspapers. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ "Eighteenth-Century American Newspapers in the Library of Congress: Georgia". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2010-10-23.
^ Van Ness Ingram, John (1912). A Check List of American Eighteenth Century Newspapers in the Library of Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office. Retrieved 2010-10-23.
^ Thomas, Isaiah (1874). History of printing in America, 2nd ed. Retrieved 2010-10-23.
^ "US Newspaper Directory: Georgia". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved March 24, 2017.
^ ^a ^b Irvine Garland Penn (1891). The Afro-American Press and Its Editors. Massachusetts: Willey and Co.

Bibliography[]

S. N. D. North; United States Department of the Interior (1884). "Catalogue of Periodical Publications: Georgia". History and Present Condition of the Newspaper and Periodical Press of the United States. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. p. 214+. OCLC 1850475. (+ List of titles 50+ years old)
James T. Haley, ed. (1895), "Newspapers: Georgia", Afro-American Encyclopaedia, Nashville: Haley & Florida, hdl:2027/inu.30000029292855, OCLC 219597043
"Georgia". American Newspaper Directory. New York: George P. Rowell. 1900. pp. 121+. hdl:2027/umn.31951002273861a.
"Georgia". American Newspaper Annual & Directory. Philadelphia: N. W. Ayer & Son. 1922. pp. 161+. hdl:2027/umn.31951001295695n – via HathiTrust.
Raybun Lee Brantley (1929), Georgia Journalism of the Civil War Period, Nashville: George Peabody College for Teachers, OCLC 2590417
Federal Writers' Project (1940), "Press and Radio", Georgia: a Guide to Its Towns and Countryside, American Guide Series, Athens: University of Georgia Press, pp. 110–116, ISBN 9781603540100 – via Google Books
Thomas D. Clark (1948). Southern Country Editor. Bobbs-Merrill. OCLC 525858. (Includes information about weekly rural newspapers in Georgia)
Louis Turner Griffith; John Erwin Talmadge (1951). Georgia Journalism, 1763-1950. University of Georgia Press. OCLC 1405638.
Millard B. Grimes (1985). The Last Linotype: The Story of Georgia and Its Newspapers Since World War II. Mercer University Press. ISBN 978-0-86554-190-0.
Cal M. Logue; et al. (1998). "Press under Pressure. How Georgia's Newspapers Responded to Civil War Constraints". American Journalism. 15.

External links[]

"Georgia Newspaper Project". Digital Library of Georgia. University System of Georgia. (Digitized issues of historical newspapers)
"Georgia Newspapers". University of Georgia Libraries. (Subject guide)
"Topics: Media: Newspapers", New Georgia Encyclopedia, Georgia Humanities Council. (Includes "Editors & Owners," "Writers & Cartoonists")
Penny Abernathy, "The Expanding News Desert: Georgia", Usnewsdeserts.com, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Survey of local news existence and ownership in 21st century)
"News: Newspapers: Regional: United States: Georgia". DMOZ. AOL. (Directory ceased in 2017)
Debra Reddin van Tuyll, "Nineteenth-Century Georgia Newspapers", New Georgia Encyclopedia, Georgia Humanities Council
"Georgia Newspapers". Historical U.S. Newspapers Online. Library Guides. Ohio: Bowling Green State University. Newspapers that are freely available on the Internet
"Southeast". Historical African American Newspapers Available Online. Subject Guides. Poughkeepsie, NY: Marist College Library. (Includes Georgia newspapers)
"Georgia". N-Net: the Newspaper Network on the World Wide Web. Archived from the original on February 15, 1997.
"Georgia Newspapers". AJR News Link. American Journalism Review. Archived from the original on November 16, 1999.
"Georgia". Home Town News. Dallas, TX: Hardscrabble Communications. Archived from the original on November 28, 1999.
"United States: Georgia". NewsDirectory.com. Toronto: Tucows Inc. Archived from the original on November 20, 2001.
International Coalition on Newspapers. "Newspaper Digitization Projects: United States: Georgia". Chicago: Center for Research Libraries.
University of Florida. "Georgia". NewspaperCat: Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers. Gainesville.

[GPA-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Newspaper Directory". Atlanta: Georgia Press Association. Retrieved March 19, 2017.

[Morris-2] "Daily Newspapers". Augusta, Georgia: Morris Communications Company. Retrieved March 27, 2017.

[Nation1909-3] "Southern Press". The South in the Building of the Nation. 7. Richmond, VA: Southern Historical Publication Society. 1909. pp. 402–436. hdl:2027/yale.39002004114386. Date of establishment of leading Southern newspapers

[Almanac2014-4] "U.S. Daily Newspapers, 2012". World Almanac and Book of Facts 2014. The World Almanac and Book of Facts Tr. USA: World Almanac Books. ISSN 0084-1382. via Google Books

[CNHI-5] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc., Locations: Georgia, Montgomery, Alabama, retrieved March 27, 2017

[McClatchy-6] "Our Markets". Sacramento, California: McClatchy Company. Retrieved March 26, 2017.

[7] "About Us". The Toccoa Record. Community Newspapers. Retrieved 17 April 2018.

[LC-8] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ "Eighteenth-Century American Newspapers in the Library of Congress: Georgia". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2010-10-23.

[Ingram-9] Van Ness Ingram, John (1912). A Check List of American Eighteenth Century Newspapers in the Library of Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office. Retrieved 2010-10-23.

[Thomas1874-10] Thomas, Isaiah (1874). History of printing in America, 2nd ed. Retrieved 2010-10-23.

[LOC-11] "US Newspaper Directory: Georgia". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved March 24, 2017.

[Penn1891-12] Irvine Garland Penn (1891). The Afro-American Press and Its Editors. Massachusetts: Willey and Co.

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Contents

21st century[]

Daily and weekly newspapers (currently published)[]

18th century[]

Defunct[]

See also[]

References[]

Bibliography[]

External links[]