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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Gannett |
Editor-in-chief | Caitlyn Stroh-Page |
Sports editor | Fletcher Page & Ryne Dennis |
Director of Presentation/Assistant Editor | Bill Stewart |
Founded | March 20, 1832 | (as the "Southern Banner")
Language | English |
Headquarters | 1 Press Pl, Ste 104, Athens, GA 30601 |
City | Athens, Georgia |
Country | United States of America |
Circulation | 5,393 Daily 7,896 Sunday (as of 2018)[1] |
Website | onlineathens |
Free online archives | Archive |
The Athens Banner-Herald is a daily newspaper in Athens, Georgia, USA, and owned by Gannett. The paper has a Sunday special and publishes online under the name Online Athens. It has been through a series of restructurings and mergers since 2000, culminating in its sale, along with several other papers, by Morris Communications to Gatehouse Media in August 2017.[2] Since the merger of GateHouse Media and Gannett in November 2019, The Athens Banner-Herald is now owned by Gannett.