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

This is a list of newspapers in the U.S. state of Georgia.

List of newspapers

Title	Locale	Year est.	Frequency	Publisher/parent company	Notes
Advance	Vidalia
Albany Herald	Albany		Sun - Fri	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 Business Chronicle	Atlanta	1978	Weekly	American City Business Journals
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
The Augusta Press	Augusta	2021	Daily
Barnesville Herald-Gazette	Barnesville	1867	Weekly
Berrien Press	Nashville		Weekly
Blackshear Times	Blackshear		Weekly
Brunswick News	Brunswick		Daily
Bryan County News	Fitzgerald		Weekly
Cairo Messenger	Cairo
Calhoun Times	Calhoun	1870	Weekly	Times-Journal Inc
Camilla Enterprise	Camilla
Catoosa County News	Ringgold		Weekly
Champion Newspaper	Decatur		Weekly
Charlton County Herald	Folkston		Weekly
Cherokee Tribune & Ledger	Canton		Daily
Citizen	Fayetteville		Weekly
Clayton News	Jonesboro	1950	Wed	Times-Journal Inc	Published once a week newspaper in Clayton County, Georgia, United States, and serves as the county's official legal organ.
Clayton Tribune	Clayton		Weekly	Community Newspapers, Inc.
The Claxton Enterprise	Claxton	1912	Weekly
Clinch County News	Homerville		Weekly
Coastal Courier	Hinesville		Weekly
Cochran Journal	Cochran		Weekly
Colonnade	Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville		Weekly
Cordele Dispatch	Cordele		Tues-Fri & Sun
Courier Herald	Dublin	1876	Weekly
Covington News	Covington		Wed, Fri & Sun
Creative Loafing	Atlanta		Weekly
The Crossroads Chronicle	Swainsboro		Wed
CrossRoadsNews	South DeKalb/East Metro Atlanta		Weekly
The Dahlonega Nugget	Dahlonega		Weekly	Community Newspapers, 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 News	Donalsonville
Douglas Enterprise	Douglas		Weekly
Dunwoody Crier	Alpharetta		Weekly	Appen Media Group
Early County News	Blakely
Effingham Herald	Rincon		Weekly
Elberton Star	Elberton		Weekly	Community Newspapers, Inc.
Fannin Sentinel	Blue Ridge		Weekly
Forest-Blade	Swainsboro		Weekly
Forsyth County News			Wed/Fri/Sun
Franklin County Citizen-Leader	Lavonia		Weekly	Community Newspapers, Inc.
Fulton County Daily Report[1]	Atlanta
George-Anne	Georgia Southern University, Statesboro		Weekly
Georgia Fire News	Georgia
Georgia Post	Roberta		Weekly
The Georgia Voice	Atlanta	2009	Bi-weekly	Rough Draft Atlanta	LGBTQ Newspaper
Gwinnett Daily Post	Lawrenceville		Wed, Fri & Sun	Times-Journal Inc	Newspaper in Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States, and serves as the county's official legal organ.
Hartwell Sun	Hartwell			Community Newspapers, Inc.
Henry Herald	McDonough	1847	Wed, Sat/Sun	Times-Journal Inc	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		Wed	Times-Journal Inc	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
Lee County Ledger	Leesburg	1978	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
Miller County Liberal	Colquitt
Morgan County Citizen	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	Community Newspapers, Inc.
News-Reporter	Washington		Weekly	Wilkes Publishing Co., Inc.	Merger of The Washington News and The Washington Reporter
Northeast Georgian	Cornelia		Weekly	Community Newspapers, Inc.
North Georgia News	Blairsville	1909[7]	Weekly	Kenneth West
Ocilla Star	Ocilla
Pelham Journal	Pelham
Post-Searchlight	Bainbridge
The Press-Sentinel	Jesup			Community Newspapers, Inc.
Quitman Free Press	Quitman		Weekly
Red and Black	University of Georgia, Athens		Weekly
Rockdale-Newton Citizen	Conyers		Wed & Sun	Times-Journal Inc	Newspaper in Conyers, Georgia, United States, and serves as Rockdale county's official legal organ.
Rockdale News	Conyers		Sat
Rome News-Tribune	Rome		Daily
Savannah Morning News[1]	Savannah	1850[3]	Daily	Morris Communications Company[2]
Statesboro Herald	Statesboro		Daily
Sylvester Local News	Sylvester	1884	Weekly
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		Mon, Wed & Fri	Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.[5]
Times-Courier	Ellijay	1875	Weekly	Community Newspapers, Inc.
Times-Georgian	Carrollton		Daily
The Toccoa Record	Toccoa	1873[8]	Weekly	Community Newspapers, Inc.
Today News Africa	Georgia	2014	Daily	TNA, LLC	African-American online and newspaper
Towns County Herald	Hiawassee	1928[9]	Weekly
Tribune and Georgian	St. Marys		Weekly	Community Newspapers, Inc.
True Citizen	Waynesboro		Weekly
Union Recorder	Milledgeville		Daily	Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.[5]
Valdosta Daily Times	Valdosta		Daily	Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.[5]
Waycross Journal Herald	Waycross		Daily
Wheeler County Eagle	Alamo
White County News	Cleveland			Community Newspapers, Inc.
Wiregrass Farmer	Ashburn

18th century

Newspapers published in 18th-century Augusta, Georgia

• Augusta Herald. W., July 17, 1799-Dec. 31, 1800+^[10]
• Georgia. The Augusta Chronicle And Gazette Of The State. W., Apr. 11, 1789-Dec. 27, 1800+^[10][11]
• The Georgia State Gazette, Or, Independent Register. W., Sept. 30, 1786-Apr. 11, 1789.^[10]
• Southern Centinel And Gazette Of The State. W., Dec. 5, 1793-Nov. 7, 1799.^[10]

Newspapers published in 18th-century Savannah, Georgia

• Columbian Museum & Savannah Advertiser. S.W., Mar. 4, 1796-Dec. 29, 1800+^[10]
• The Gazette Of The State Of Georgia. W., Jan. 30, 1783-Oct. 16, 1788.^[10]
• The Georgia Gazette. W., Apr. 7, 1763-Feb. 7, 1776.^[10][12]
• Georgia Gazette. W., Oct. 23, 1788-Dec. 25, 1800+^[10]
• The Royal Georgia Gazette. W., Jan. 21, 1779-June 6, 1782.^[10]

• 
  Georgia Gazette, 1763
• 
  Columbian Museum & Savannah Advertiser, 1796

Defunct

Title	Locale	Year est.	Ceased	Notes
Atlanta Georgian	Atlanta	1906[3]	1939[13]
Atlanta Southern Confederacy
Cherokee Phoenix	New Echota	1828	1834
Colored American	Augusta	1865[14]
Columbus Messenger	Columbus	1887[14]
Daily Intelligencer	Atlanta
Daily Sun
Great Speckled Bird	Atlanta
Luminary
Milledgeville Federal Union	Milledgeville			Was being published in 1835.
Savannah Georgian	Savannah			Was being published in 1834; in Newspaperarchive
The Macon News	Macon	1884	1983	Merged into The Telegraph
Union Sentinel	Blairsville	2001[15]	2012[16]

See also

• Georgia media
  • List of radio stations in Georgia (U.S. state)
  • List of television stations in Georgia (U.S. state)
  • Media of cities in Georgia: Athens, Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, Savannah
• Journalism:
  • Category:Journalists from Georgia (U.S. state)
  • University of Georgia Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, in Athens
• Literature of Georgia (U.S. state)

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References

1. "Newspaper Directory". Atlanta: Georgia Press Association. Archived from the original on February 15, 2017. Retrieved March 19, 2017.
2. "Daily Newspapers". Augusta, Georgia: Morris Communications Company. Archived from the original on March 27, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
3. "Southern Press". The South in the Building of the Nation. Vol. 7. Richmond, VA: Southern Historical Publication Society. 1909. pp. 402–436. hdl:2027/yale.39002004114386. Archived from the original on 2023-02-06. Retrieved 2017-03-23. Date of establishment of leading Southern newspapers
4. "U.S. Daily Newspapers, 2012". World Almanac and Book of Facts 2014. USA: World Almanac Books. ISSN 0084-1382. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help) via Google Books Archived 2023-02-06 at the Wayback Machine
5. Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc., Locations: Georgia, Montgomery, Alabama, archived from the original on April 8, 2017, retrieved March 27, 2017
6. "Our Markets". Sacramento, California: McClatchy Company. Archived from the original on April 10, 2017. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
7. "North Georgia News". Retrieved 2024-02-26.
8. "About Us". The Toccoa Record. Community Newspapers. Archived from the original on 18 April 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
9. "Towns County Herald (Hiawassee, Towns County, Ga.) 1928-Current". Directory of U.S. Newspapers in American Libraries. Library of Congress. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
10. "Eighteenth-Century American Newspapers in the Library of Congress: Georgia". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 2010-01-08. Retrieved 2010-10-23.
11. 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.
12. Thomas, Isaiah (1874). History of printing in America, 2nd ed. Retrieved 2010-10-23.
13. "US Newspaper Directory: Georgia". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Archived from the original on March 27, 2017. Retrieved March 24, 2017.
14. Irvine Garland Penn (1891). The Afro-American Press and Its Editors. Massachusetts: Willey and Co.
15. "Union Sentinel Newspaper". United States (USA) Business Database. Retrieved 2024-02-26.
16. "Union Sentinel". MondoTimes. Retrieved 2024-02-26.

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.
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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.