Home News Enterprises
| Private (family-owned) | |
| Industry | Commercial printing and newspapers |
| Founded | 1872 |
| Founder | Isaac T. Brown |
| Headquarters | 333 Second Street, Columbus, Indiana 47201, United States |
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Area served
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Indianapolis metropolitan area and south-central Indiana |
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Key people
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| Products | Four daily newspapers and six weeklies |
| Website | aimmediaindiana |
AIM Media Indiana (formerly Home News Enterprises) is an American printer and publisher of daily and weekly newspapers, based in Columbus, Indiana.
Its flagship newspaper is The Republic in Columbus, and its other newspaper holdings also cover small cities and counties south and east of Indianapolis. Not counting its 2012 acquisition of The Tribune, the company boasts an overall circulation of 55,000.
Isaac T. Brown founded The Columbus Republican in 1872. Isaac's father, Isaac M. Brown, served as the newspaper's editor. Isaac T. Brown died in 1917, leaving his son Raymond Brown in sole control of the newspaper.
Raymond Brown converted the company into a partnership with his wife Anna in 1942, and in 1963 expanded the partnership to include their adult children Richard Brown, Robert N. Brown and Elizabeth B. Marshall. The partnership became a limited liability company (LLC) in 1994.
The company began expanding its holdings in 1963, when Robert N. Brown started the Daily Journal in Johnson County, which borders on Columbus' Bartholomew County to the north.
In 1973, Home News acquired The Greenfield Daily Reporter, in Hancock County east of Indianapolis, a year after the death of Dorothea Spencer, whose family had started the paper in 1908.
Home News purchased two competing weekly newspapers in Northern Indiana, the Angola Herald and Steuben Republican, in 1982 and combined them into one newspaper, publishing twice each week. The company held this Angola publication until 2001, when it sold The Herald Republican to KPC Media Group of Kendallville, Indiana, which converted it to a daily newspaper.
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