Daily Star (Hammond)

The Daily & Sunday Star is a newspaper published in Hammond, Louisiana, by the Daily Star Publishing Company, located at 725 South Morrison Boulevard, ZIP 70403-5401. As of 2015 the publisher is Bailey Dabney, the executive editor is Lil Mirando, the sports editor is J.D. Summerlin. The advertising director is Michelle Gallo. The circulation director is William Calcutt. The newspaper belongs to the Associated Press, the Louisiana Press Association, and the Hammond Chamber of Commerce. The newspaper focuses on happenings in Tangipahoa Parish, where Hammond is located, and in Livingston Parish and St. Helena Parish, the three civil parishes (counties in other states) of its home-delivery circulation area.

The Daily Star began on November 12, 1959, as The Hammond Press, which on December 23 of the same year retitled itself The Hammond Item. The Daily & Sunday Star is the sole daily newspaper published in Hammond (as of 2011). Its Sunday edition is The Sunday Star; The Daily Star is issued on five weekdays (Tuesday through Saturday, as of 2011).

In 2007, The Daily Star changed from being an afternoon newspaper to publishing in the morning, thereby within its three-parish circulation area competing head-to-head with The Advocate (Baton Rouge) and The Times-Picayune (New Orleans). The Daily Star has held its own by nuancing to this competitive environment in Louisiana's fastest-growing region. As of 2013, it had a paid circulation above 12 thousand, free (shopping) circulation of 35 thousand, and prodigious advertising, especially in the Thursday and Sunday editions. The Sunday Star circulates USA Weekend and includes a full comics section.

Over the years The Daily Star has been owned by various media corporations. In 2013 it was owned by Paxton Media Group, headquartered in Kentucky.

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