The Southwest Times Record is a daily newspaper in Fort Smith, Arkansas

Fort Smith, Arkansas

Fort Smith is the second-largest city in Arkansas and one of the two county seats of Sebastian County. With a population of 86,209 in 2010, it is the principal city of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area, a region of 298,592 residents which encompasses the Arkansas...

 and covers much of western Arkansas

Western Arkansas

Western Arkansas is a region of the U.S. state of Arkansas. It can be roughly defined by Crawford County in the northwest, Van Buren County in the northeast, Dallas County in the southeast, and Sevier County in the southwest. Some notable towns there include Fort Smith, Van Buren, Clarksville,...

, southeastern Oklahoma, and a portion of northeastern Oklahoma. It is owned and published by Stephens Media LLC

Stephens Media (newspapers)

Stephens Media LLC is a Las Vegas, Nevada diversified media holding company that publishes over 11 daily and 64 weekly newspapers in 9 states, primarily in Nevada and Arkansas....

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History

The newspaper was founded in 1884 as the evening Fort Smith Times. In 1909, it merged with the Fort Smith News Record, another evening paper to become the Fort Smith Times Record. John Parks and George Carney bought the Times Record in 1920, and three years later bought Fort Smith's daily morning paper, the Southwest American, which had began publication in 1907. The two papers continued to publish separate editions during the week, publishing a single edition on Sunday known as the Southwest Times Record. Donald W. Reynolds

Donald W. Reynolds

Donald W. Reynolds was an American businessman and philanthropist. During his lifetime, he was best known for his involvement in the Donrey Media Group.-Biography:...

bought the papers in 1940, making it the flagship of the Donrey Media Group. In 1969, Donrey halted separate delivery of the afternoon Times Record and morning American, merging the papers into a single seven-day morning paper under the Southwest Times Record name. It has published daily under that moniker since.

Subsidiary Publications

River Valley Advertiser (Ft. Smith)

Booneville Democrat

Paris Express

Greenwood Democrat

Alma Journal

Press Argus-Courier (Crawford County)

Charleston Express

External links

• Southwest Times Record official web site
• Stephens Media official web site