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Southwest Daily News

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Southwest Daily News
TypeTri-weekly newspaper
Owner(s)Boone Newspapers
EditorBrian Trahan
Founded1930 (1930), as The Sulphur Southwest Builder[1]
Headquarters714 East Napoleon Street,
Sulphur, Louisiana 70663, United States
Circulation1,075 Daily
1,150 Sunday[2]
OCLC number20537500
Websitesulphurdailynews.com

The Southwest Daily News is an American tri-weekly newspaper published Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays in Sulphur, Louisiana. Previously owned by GateHouse Media, it was sold to the owners of the Lake Charles American Press in 2016.[3] Boone Newspapers acquired the American Press and the Daily News in 2020.[4]

The paper formerly published daily. It covers Sulphur and surrounding portions of Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana; it also owns three weekly newspapers covering other communities in the parish: The Moss Bluff News in Moss Bluff, the Vinton News in Vinton and The Westlake News in Westlake.

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  1. ^ "About The Sulphur Southwest Builder". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved June 7, 2012.
  2. ^ "Southwest Daily News". Louisiana Press Association. Retrieved 2023-04-25.
  3. ^ NewsInc
  4. ^ "Boone Newspapers' Affiliate to Acquire Lake Charles (LA) American Press and Southwest Daily News". Dirks, Van Essen, Murray & April | Press Releases. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
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