Local Newspapers
Introduction ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Bloomington.
Our newspaper information for Bloomington is based on data taken from the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.
The following list contains the names of 78 papers that were published in the immediate area of Bloomington. In addition, the list contains another 41 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Bloomington. In total, we've identified 119 papers within 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> of Bloomington.
To keep this list from growing too long, not all of the papers have been listed. We have another list where all the papers have been listed in alphabetical order. The complete list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Bloomington.
Newspapers Published In Bloomington ...
We know of 78 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Bloomington:
- Bloomington Daily Herald (from 1947)
- Bloomington Daily Telephone (from 192?)
- Bloomington Democrat (from 1868)
- Bloomington Dollar Times (from 1855)
- Bloomington Evening World (from 1933)
- Bloomington Evening World (from 1900)
- Bloomington Independent (from 199?)
- Bloomington Morning World (from 1899)
- Bloomington New Almanac (from 1975)
- Bloomington News-Letter (from 1854)
- Bloomington Presage (from 1858)
- Bloomington Republican And Indiana Gazette (from 1827)
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- Bloomington Republican (from 1856)
- Bloomington Republican (from 1827)
- Bloomington Telephone (from 1883)
- Bloomington Telephone (from 1887)
- Bloomington Voice (from 19??)
- Bloomington Weekly Courier (from 1906)
- Bloomington Weekly Equator (from 1840)
- Bloomington World-telephone (from 1943)
- Common Sense (from 1971)
- Courier Tribune (from 1968)
- Daily Herald-telephone And The Evening World (from 1950)
- Daily Herald-telephone (from 1950)
- Fun City! (from 1975)
- Independent Whig (from 1830)
- Indiana Gazette And Literature's Advocate (from 1834)
- Indiana Tribune And Monroe Farmer (from 1848)
- Indiana Tribune (from 1847)
- Primo Times (from 1974)
- Primo Times (from 1974)
- Real Times Weekly (from 1982)
- Real Times (from 19??)
- Years of publication: 19?? to current
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Real Times
- Holdings for: LCCN SN81000502
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 7147600
- Religious Times (from 1853)
- Semi-Weekly Telephone (from 188?)
- Six County Topics (from 196?)
- Six County Topics (from 196?)
- Six County Topics (from 196?)
- South Central Topics (from 1970)
- South Central Topics (from 1970)
- South Central Topics (from 1970)
- The Bloomington Courier (from 1875)
- The Bloomington Courier (from 1899)
- The Bloomington Hawkeye (from 1880)
- The Bloomington Post (from 1836)
- The Bloomington Progress (from 1867)
- The Bloomington Reporter (from 1850)
- The Bloomington Times (from 1875)
- The Bloomington Tribune (from 1966)
- The Bloomington Weekly Star (from 1919)
- The Bloomington World (from 1892)
- The Bloomington, Indiana, World (from 1895)
- The Courier (from 1895)
- The Daily Telephone (from 1892)
- The Democrat (from 1843)
- The Evening World (from 1922)
- The Far West (from 1832)
- The first year of publication was in 1832, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Far West
- Holdings for: LCCN SN94055024
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 31021440
- The Free For All (from 1893)
- The Herald-Times (from 1989)
- The Herald-telephone (from 1977)
- The Indiana Globe (from 1845)
- The Indiana Weekly Student (from 1920)
- The Morning World (from 1894)
- The Morning World (from 1899)
- The Northwestern Gazette & Working Farmer's Journal (from 185?)
- The Post (from 1835)
- The Republican Progress (from 187?)
- The Saturday Courier (from 1881)
- The Star Courier (from 1943)
- The Star (from 1895)
- The first year of publication was in 1895, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Star
- Holdings for: LCCN SN85047539
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 11925975
- The Sunday Star
- The first year of publication is unknown, with the last issue in 1919
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Sunday Star
- Holdings for: LCCN SN85047542
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 6855816
- The Weekly Star
- The first year of publication is unknown, with the last issue in 1918
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Weekly Star
- Holdings for: LCCN SN85047541
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 6855732
- The Western Times (from 1854)
- The World Telephone (from 1943)
- The World (from 1894)
- The World (from 1899)
- Weekly Telephone (from 1877)
- Western Olive Branch (from 185?)
Newspapers Neighboring Bloomington ...
The following newspapers were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> of Bloomington.
The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Bloomington.
- Published In Ellettsville ...
- The Ellettsville Journal (from 1939)
- The Ellettsville Republican (from 1872)
- The Farm And Real Estate (from 1895)
- The Farm And Real Estate (from 1913)
- The Farm (from 1916)
- The Farm (from 1895)
- The Journal (from 1957)
- The Local Graphic (from 18??)
- The Monroe County Citizen (from 1882)
- The Monroe County Farmer (from 1879)
- The Weekly Sun (from 187?)
- The first year of publication was in 187?, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for The Weekly Sun
- Holdings for: LCCN SN90099325
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 21951433
- Published In Harrodsburg ...
- Harrodsburg News (from 1879)
- The Enterprise (from 189?)
- The Harrodsburg Review (from 1886)
- The Journal (from 1892)
- The Weekly Enterprise (from 1890)
- Published In Stinesville ...
- The Stinesville Review (from 1898)
- Published In Gosport [Owen County] ...
- Gosport Independent (from 1868)
- Gosport Tribune (from 1873)
- The Gosport Gazette (from 1875)
- The Gosport Reporter (from 1911)
- The Gosport Weekly Spy (from 1882)
- Published In Nashville [Brown County] ...
- Brown County Democrat (from 1883)
- Brown County Gazette (from 1980)
- Hickory Withe (from 1856)
- Nashville Jacksonian (from 188?)
- The Brown County Banner (from 189?)
- The Index (from 1868)
- The Jacksonian (from 1870)
- The Jacksonian (from 188?)
- The Nashville Union (from 1861)
- Published In Paragon [Morgan County] ...
- The Paragon Progress (from 193?)
- Published In Spencer [Owen County] ...
- National Weekly Guard (from 1857)
- Owen County Democrat (from 19??)
- Owen County News (from 1873)
- Spencer Republican (from 1881)
- The Democrat (from 1876)
- The Evening World (from 1927)
- The Owen County Journal (from 1858)
- The Owen County People (from 1879)
- The Owen Leader (from 1913)
- The Republican (from 1848)
- The Spencer Republican (from 1875)
- Published In Martinsville [Morgan County] ...
- Martinsville Clarion (from 1860)
- Martinsville Daily Reporter (from 1946)
- Martinsville Republican (from 1874)
- Morgan County Clarion (from 186?)
- Morgan County Gazette (from 1849)
- Morgan County Republican (from 1870)
- Reporter (from 1974)
- Years of publication: 1974 to 1999
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Reporter
- Holdings for: LCCN SN86058504
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 13503719
- The Daily Reporter (from 1889)
- The Martinsville Democrat (from 1895)
- The Martinsville Gazette (from 1971)
- The Martinsville Journal (from 1845)
- The Martinsville Monitor (from 1855)
- The Morgan County Gazette (from 1886)
- The Morgan County Gazette (from 1970)
- The Reporter-Times (from 1999)
- Weekly Gazette (from 1876)
- Published In Morgantown [Morgan County] ...
- The Morgantown Truth (from 1895)
- The Morgantown Truth (from 19??)
- The Truth (from 1904)
- Published In Bedford [Lawrence County] ...
- We know of 41 newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Bedford. The list of those papers is too long to repeat here, but can be found on the Local Newspaper Page for Bedford
- We have an extended list that contains all the papers within 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> of Bloomington. This extended list includes all the papers from Bedford. The list is sorted by the paper's name. This merged list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for Bloomington
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Chronicling America
The official website for Bloomington: www.city.bloomington.in.us/
The official website for Monroe County: www.co.monroe.in.us/
The official website for State of Indiana: https://www.in.gov
Footnotes ...
<1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Bloomington) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bloomington. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.1656, Longitude: -86.5268 |