The Helena World is a weekly newspaper based in Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, which serves Phillips County. It is published on Wednesdays in print but has a website, www.helenaworld.org, which is updated daily.
History
The publication was founded in 1871 and has operated continuously since.
It was formerly owned by Gatehouse Media. In 2019 the company stated that it planned to close the newspaper, but that year businesspeople Andrew Bagley and Chuck Davis announced that they will acquire the publication.[1]
In 2020, Bagley and Davis announced that they had acquired the buildings old headquarters at 417 York Street and would be rehabilitating the facility and returning the paper to its former home where it had been housed from 1961 to 2019.
References
- ^ "Helena-West Helena newspaper gets new owners, won't close". Associated Press. 2019-09-07. Retrieved 2019-11-02.
External links
- The Helena-West Helena World
- Gatehouse Media (2019-09-05). "Local businessman enters into agreement to purchase World, continue legacy". Helena-West Helena World.
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