| Company type | Private (family-owned) |
|---|---|
| Industry | Commercial printing andnewspapers |
| Founded | 1872 (1872) |
| Founder | Isaac T. Brown |
| Headquarters | 333 Second Street, Columbus,Indiana 47201,United States |
Area served | Indianapolis metropolitan area andsouth-central Indiana |
| Products | Fourdaily newspapers and fiveweeklies |
| Website | aimmediaindiana |
AIM Media Indiana (formerly Home News Enterprises) is an American printer and publisher of daily and weeklynewspapers, based inColumbus, Indiana.
Itsflagship newspaper isThe Republic in Columbus, and its other newspaper holdings also cover small cities and counties south and east ofIndianapolis. Not counting its 2012 acquisition ofThe Tribune, the company boasts an overall circulation of 55,000.[1]
On November 11, 2022, it was announced that Richard Clark would succeed Bud Hunt as vice president and group publisher for AIM Media Indiana, with responsibility for all AIM Media properties within the state.[2]
Isaac T. Brown foundedThe Columbus Republican in 1872. Isaac's father, Isaac M. Brown, served as the newspaper's editor. Isaac T. Brown died in 1917, leaving his son Raymond Brown in sole control of the newspaper.[3]
Raymond Brown converted the company into a partnership with his wife Anna in 1942, and in 1963 expanded the partnership to include their adult children Richard Brown, Robert N. Brown and Elizabeth B. Marshall. The partnership became alimited liability company (LLC) in 1994.[3]
The company began expanding its holdings in 1963, when Robert N. Brown started theDaily Journal inJohnson County, which borders on Columbus'Bartholomew County to the north.[3]
In 1973, Home News acquiredThe Greenfield Daily Reporter, inHancock County east ofIndianapolis, a year after the death of Dorothea Spencer, whose family had started the paper in 1908.[4]
Home News purchased two competingweekly newspapers inNorthern Indiana, theAngola Herald andSteuben Republican, in 1982 and combined them into one newspaper, publishing twice each week. The company held thisAngola publication until 2001, when it soldThe Herald Republican toKPC Media Group ofKendallville, Indiana, which converted it to a daily newspaper.[5]
Around the same time as the Angola purchase, Home News bought theHerald Journal inMonticello, in north-central Indiana. It sold this paper in 2008 to Community Newspaper Group ofWest Frankfort, Illinois. At the time, Home News CEO Jeffrey N. Brown said his company wanted to concentrate on "our cluster of newspapers and commercial printing around the Indianapolis and southern Indiana areas".[6]
The company had expanded its footprint in the Columbus area in 2002, buying its neighboring weekly theBrown County Democrat (founded asThe Jacksonian in 1870).[7] Five years later it grew its holdings east of Indianapolis with the June 2007 purchase of two weeklies inMadison County, theLapel Post andThe Pendleton Times, which it combined into theTimes-Post.[8]
Home News added its latest title in 2012, purchasingThe Tribune for an undisclosed sum fromCalifornia-based publisherFreedom Communications, which was emerging from bankruptcy and selling several of its newspaper assets at the time.The Tribune coversSeymour, Indiana, inJackson County, which borders Bartholomew County to the south; Home News had been printingThe Tribune at its Columbus presses "for several years".[9]
In 2015, all Home News properties were sold to AIM Media Indiana, a sister company ofAIM Media Texas.[10]
The company operates presses inColumbus andGreenfield, Indiana, both of which offer commercial printing services in addition to printing Home News' own newspapers. It also has editorial and business offices in Columbus,Franklin,Nashville,Pendleton andSeymour, all in Indiana (its Greenfield newspaper offices are in the same building as the presses).
AIM Media Indiana's newspapers are:
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