Missoulian

Missoulian

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	Lee Enterprises
Publisher	Stacey Mueller
Editor	Sherry Devlin
Founded	1870 (as the Missoula and Cedar Creek Pioneer)
Headquarters	Missoula, Montana United States
Official website	missoulian.com

The Missoulian is a daily newspaper printed in Missoula, Montana. Its circulation is 34,855 on Sundays, 30,466 on weekdays. The newspaper is owned by Lee Enterprises. The Missoulian is the 2nd largest published newspaper in Montana, just behind the Billings Gazette. the Missoulian is published throughout the city of Missoula, Montana, and also throughout most of western Montana.

History

The history of the Missoulian dates back to 1870, when a pair of businessmen decided the Missoula Valley would be a good place to start a newspaper. The first press, loaded onto a wagon that was pulled by a four-horse team, came from Helena and arrived in Missoula in August 1870; the paper that would eventually be called the Missoulian first came out on Sept. 15, 1870. At the time, it was called the Missoula and Cedar Creek Pioneer; by 1873, though, the paper’s name had been changed to the Missoulian.

In 1959, Anaconda sold the Missoulian and its other Montana papers and properties to Lee Enterprises of Iowa. In 1985, the paper moved to a new home on the banks of the Clark Fork River in downtown Missoula.

External links

• Missoulian website
• Lee Enterprises profile of the Missoulian

See Also

Missoula, Montana