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Ogden Newspapers is a media corporation that publishes 40 daily newspapers, several magazines, weekly newspapers, and shoppers in 12 states, including Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. The company's headquarters is in Wheeling.

Herschel C. Ogden founded the Wheeling Daily News in 1890, which later merged with the Wheeling Register to become today's Wheeling News-Register. Ogden purchased the Wheeling Intelligencer in 1904 and began to build what has become the largest newspaper chain in West Virginia.

Ogden-owned newspapers in West Virginia, in addition to the Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register, include the Parkersburg News and Parkersburg Sentinel, the Journal in Martinsburg, the Inter-Mountain in Elkins, the Wetzel Chronicle, the Weirton Daily Times, the Tyler Star News in Sistersville, and the Shepherdstown Chronicle. The company publishes several magazines, including Mother Earth News and Grit.

H. C. Ogden's grandson, G. Ogden Nutting, is the present publisher of Ogden Newspapers. He started his newspaper career in 1956 as a reporter and news editor for the Martinsburg Journal, which H. C. Ogden had bought in 1923. Robert Nutting is company president and chief executive officer.

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"Ogden Newspapers." e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia. 08 February 2024. Web. Accessed: 20 September 2024.

08 Feb 2024