type private industry commercial printing and newspapers founded august 7 1911 1911 08 07 founder george w. baxter o.e. michaelis headquarters 102 north main street kendallville indiana 46755 united states area served northeastern indiana key people terry g. housholder president ceo terry r. ward coo s. rick mitchell cfo david r. kurtz exec . ed . products three daily newspapers and several weekly and monthly publications website kpcnews.com kpc media group inc. is an american privately owned printer and publisher of daily and weekly newspapers based in kendallville indiana . it was founded in 1911 as kendallville publishing company inc. by the owners of two competing newspapers in kendallville when they merged into the news sun . starting in the 1970s the company extended its reach to other northeastern indiana locations and now owns two other daily newspapers and several weeklies and monthlies in the area . 1 contents 1 history 2 holdings 3 references 4 external links history edit the daily sun and daily news in kendallville merged in 1911 after having competed as daily newspapers for five years and as weekly newspapers for decades . the sun traced its history back to the noble county journal founded c. 1860 ; the weekly news began in 1877 . the two newspapers publishers o.e. michaelis and george w. baxter established kendallville publishing company inc. to run the new kendallville news sun . 2 they established offices on north main street in kendallville in the same building where kpc media group remains headquartered today more than 100 years later . 3 baxter and michaelis sold the newspaper to charles o. merica in 1913 ; his wife alice merica inherited it in 1918 and remained publisher until her death on january 25 1969 at age 103 . she was the oldest newspaper publisher in the united states . 3 george o. witwer publisher from 1969 to 2001 oversaw the company s expansion outside kendallville purchasing in december 1971 the evening star of auburn indiana a newspaper that has served dekalb county since 1871 since 1913 as a daily . in the 21st century kpc converted the newspaper to morning publication seven days a week and it is now called the star . 1 in may 1975 the company bought the advance leader of noble county indiana a weekly newspaper with its roots in the cromwell advance 1912 and ligonier leader 1880 . 1 around the turn of the 21st century the company bought two more properties in adjoining markets the garrett clipper in southern dekalb county founded in 1885 and integrated into kpc october 1 1999 and the herald republican of angola indiana in august 2001 . the herald republican a semiweekly newspaper at the time kpc bought it had been formed by home news enterprises in 1982 by combining two competing weeklies the angola herald 1876 and steuben republican 1857 . kpc converted it into a daily newspaper september 12 2001 . 1 under current ceo terry g. housholder the company has established a footprint in the city of fort wayne indiana both through acquisitions and startups . in early 2005 it established greater fort wayne business weekly a business journal for a 15 county region surrounding fort wayne and greater fort wayne family a monthly magazine . in 2006 it purchased times community publications a chain of free distribution monthly newspapers covering fort wayne and other allen county communities . 1 kpc also bought the butler bulletin a weekly in eastern dekalb county in 2005 . 1 also in 2005 the company officially changed its name to kpc media group inc. to reflect its expansion beyond kendallville . 1 in addition to serving as an abbreviation of its former name the company has said that kpc stands for keeping people connected . 4 holdings edit the company operates presses in kendallville offering commercial printing services in addition to printing kpc s own newspapers . it also has editorial and business offices in auburn angola and fort wayne . kpc s newspapers and magazines all of which are located in northeastern indiana are aboite & about monthly of aboite and roanoke the advance leader weekly of cromwell and ligonier the butler bulletin weekly of butler dupont valley times monthly of huntertown and leo cedarville east allen county times monthly of new haven and woodburn family magazine bimonthly of kendallville the garrett clipper semiweekly of garrett greater fort wayne business weekly weekly of fort wayne infortwayne online of fort wayne the herald republican daily of angola the news sun daily of kendallville the star daily of auburn st. joe times monthly of st. joseph township references edit a b c d e f g about us kpc media group inc. . kpcnews.com . retrieved june 20 2012 . knopp dave november 4 2000 . ink to flow into 21st century at county s newspapers . the news sun . retrieved june 20 2012 . a b kpc media group marks 100 years . hoosier state press association . august 8 2011 . retrieved june 20 2012 . kpc s history dates back to aug. 7 1911 . the news sun . august 7 2011 . p. f12 . retrieved june 23 2012 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title kpc media group & oldid 664781374 categories kpc media groupnoble county indianamedia in fort wayne indiananewspaper 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 31 may 2015 at 00 17 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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