Southern Newspapers Inc. (SNI) is a publishing holding company headquartered in Houston, Texas.Home page. Southern Newspapers Inc.. Retrieved on January 23, 2010. "5701 Woodway Drive Suite 131 Houston, TX 77057 " The company was founded as Southern Newspapers, Inc., of Tennessee in 1967 by Carmage Walls. Its flagship paper, the Galveston County Daily News is the oldest newspaper in Texas, founded in 1842.History of the Galveston News http://galvestondailynews.com/history.lasso
Publications The company owns several publications, primarily in Texas.
Current publications
Bay City Tribune (1845) , Bay City, Texas Baytown Sun (1949) , Baytown, Texas Brazosport Facts (1913) , Brazoria County, Texas The Daily Sentinel (1899) , Nacogdoches, Texas Fort Payne Times-Journal , Fort Payne, Alabama The Galveston County Daily News (1842) , Galveston, Texas Kerrville Daily Times (1908) , Kerrville, Texas Lufkin Daily News (1906) , Lufkin, Texas New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung (1852) , New Braunfels, Texas The Paris News (1869) , Paris, Texas Sand Mountain Reporter , Albertville, Alabama Scottsboro Daily Sentinel , Scottsboro, Alabama Seguin Gazette (1888) , Seguin, Texas Walton Tribune , Monroe, Georgia
Defunct publications
Angleton Times (1893–2004) - absorbed by the Brazosport FactsHouston Chronicle http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2004_3748308 Del Rio News-Herald (1929–2020) - discontinued Texas City Sun (1912–2004) - absorbed by the Galveston County Daily NewsHouston Chronicle http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2004_3810265 Weekly Post (1986–2010) - absorbed by sister paper, the Fort Payne Times-Journal.
External links
Texas Digital Newspaper Program
References
Galveston County Daily News: Lufkin, Nacogdoches newspapers join SNI family