. for the newspaper in new jersey see home news tribune . home news enterprises llc type private family owned industry commercial printing and newspapers founded 1872 1872 founder isaac t. brown headquarters 333 second street columbus indiana 47201 united states area served indianapolis metropolitan area and south central indiana key people jeffrey n. brown president products four daily newspapers and six weeklies website homenewsenterprises.com home news enterprises is an american family owned printer and publisher of daily and weekly newspapers based in columbus indiana . its flagship newspaper is the republic in columbus and its other newspaper holdings also cover small cities and counties south and east of indianapolis . not counting its 2012 acquisition of the tribune the company boasts an overall circulation of 55 000 . 1 contents 1 history 2 holdings 3 references 4 external links history edit home news current president jeffrey n. brown is the great grandson of isaac t. brown who founded the 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 . 2 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 a limited liability company llc in 1994 . 2 the company began expanding its holdings in 1963 when robert n. brown started the daily journal in johnson county which borders on columbus bartholomew county to the north . 2 in 1973 home news acquired the greenfield daily reporter in hancock county east of indianapolis a year after the death of dorothea spencer whose family had started the paper in 1908 . 3 home news purchased two competing weekly newspapers in northern indiana the angola herald and steuben republican in 1982 and combined them into one newspaper publishing twice each week . the company held this angola publication until 2001 when it sold the the herald republican to kpc media group of kendallville indiana which converted it to a daily newspaper . 4 around the same time as the angola purchase home news bought the herald journal in monticello in north central indiana . it sold this paper in 2008 to community newspaper group of west 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 . 5 the company had expanded its footprint in the columbus area in 2002 buying its neighboring weekly the brown county democrat founded as the jacksonian in 1870 . 6 five years later it grew its holdings east of indianapolis with the june 2007 purchase of two weeklies in madison county the lapel post and the pendleton times which it combined into the times post . 7 home news added its latest title in 2012 purchasing the tribune for an undisclosed sum from california based publisher freedom communications which was emerging from bankruptcy and selling several of its newspaper assets at the time . the tribune covers seymour indiana in jackson county which borders bartholomew county to the south ; home news had been printing the tribune at its columbus presses for several years . 8 holdings edit the company operates presses in columbus and greenfield 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 and seymour all in indiana its greenfield newspaper offices are in the same building as the presses . home news newspapers all of which are located in indiana are daily journal of franklin and its sister weeklies the crier of camp atterbury edinburgh courier of edinburgh daily reporter of greenfield and its sister weeklies fortville mccordsville reporter of fortville new palestine reporter of new palestine the republic of columbus the tribune of seymour other weekly newspapers brown county democrat of nashville times post of pendleton references edit home news enterprises . homenewsenterprises.com . retrieved june 15 2012 . a b c mission & history . dailyjournal.net . retrieved june 15 2012 . williams dorothy june ; williams thomas e.q. 1995 . a history of hancock county indiana in the twentieth century . greenfield indiana coiny press . pp. 404 409 . isbn 1 887495 01 0 . about us kpc media group inc. . kpcnews.com . retrieved june 15 2012 . columbus based home news enterprises sells monticello newspaper . indiana economic digest . april 12 2008 . retrieved june 15 2012 . company overview . brown county democrat . retrieved june 15 2012 . times post . homenewsenterprises.com . retrieved june 15 2012 . hne purchases seymour tribune . hoosier state press association . january 12 2012 . retrieved june 15 2012 . external links edit official website v t e home news enterprises daily journal daily reporter the republic the tribune list of all home news enterprises newspapers retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title home news enterprises & oldid 743485494 categories home news enterprisesbartholomew county indianamedia in indianapolisnewspaper companies of the united states navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 21 40 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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