Berne Witness

The Berne Witness is a newspaper based in Berne, Indiana, United States. It covers local community news with a circulation of 1,600.[1] The paper was founded in 1896 as a 3-issue-per-week, bi-lingual, Prohibitionist newspaper.[2] The Berne Witness was also referred to as the official printing house of the Mennonite Church of the United States.[3] Every issue had two pages published in German for the town's mostly Swiss and German immigrants. For the largest immigrant group in Indiana, this was important to help immigrants maintain their cultural identity while integrating into their new country.[4]

The Berne Witness
Owner(s)Muselman Family
Founder(s)Fred Rohrer
PublisherClint Anderson
EditorManda Arnold
Circulation1,600
Websitehttps://bernewitness.com
  1. ^ "Spreadsheet of Indiana Media Sources". State of Indiana, United States of America. 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2019.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "About The Berne Witness". Chronicling America. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  3. ^ Tyndall, John; Lesh, Orlo Ervin (1918). Standard History of Adams and Wells Counties, Indiana: An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with an Extended Survey of Modern Developments in the Progress of Town and Country. Vol. 1. The Lewis Publishing Company. p. 229.
  4. ^ "Marker highlights demise of German-language newspapers". The Herald-Tribune. October 19, 2017. Retrieved February 26, 2019.