 1926 Gazette building | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Rust Communications |
| Founder(s) | Harry D. Strunk |
| Publisher | Shary Skiles |
| Editor | Bruce Crosby |
| Founded | 1911 (as Red Willow Gazette) |
| Language | American English |
| Headquarters | W. First and E Streets McCook, Nebraska 69001 |
| Country | United States |
| Circulation | 3,140[1] |
| OCLC number | 31304135 |
| Website | mccookgazette |
The McCook Daily Gazette is a newspaper published in the city of McCook, in the southwestern part of the state of Nebraska, in the Great Plains region of the United States. It serves southwestern Nebraska and northwestern Kansas. The newspaper is issued five days a week, Monday through Friday afternoons. As of 2011, it had a circulation of 4,564.
The paper was founded in 1911 by Harry D. Strunk and Burris H. Stewart as the Red Willow Gazette. Thirteen years later, under Strunk's editorship, it became a daily and changed its name to the McCook Daily Gazette. In 1929, the newspaper became one of the first in the world to be delivered regularly by air: for several months its airplane, the Newsboy, flew a daily route, dropping bundles of newspapers to carriers in outlying towns. An image of the Newsboy still decorates the paper's nameplate.
Strunk published the Gazette until his death in 1960, when he was succeeded by his son Allen Strunk. In 1986, the paper was acquired by Gozia-Driver Media, which was later re-incorporated as US Media Group. In 1997, the Gazette was sold to Rust Communications.
- ^ "Nebraska Newspaper Locator Map | Nebraska Press Association". 2012-11-21. Retrieved 2023-04-10.