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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of Scranton.

Our newspaper information for Scranton 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 3 papers that were published in the immediate area of Scranton. In addition, the list contains another 123 papers that were published in the broader area that surrounded Scranton. In total, we've identified 126 papers within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Scranton.

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 Scranton.  

Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is very large and will take extra time to load.

Newspapers Published In Scranton ...

We know of 3 newspapers that have been published in the immediate area of Scranton:

Newspapers Neighboring Scranton ...

The following newspapers were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1> of Scranton.

The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from Scranton.

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Scranton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Scranton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.7777, Longitude: -95.7404       In this case, the coordinates for Scranton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).