List of newspapers in Kentucky

This is a list of newspapers in Kentucky.

Daily and weekly newspapers (currently published)

University newspapers

• College Heights Herald – Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green
• The Concord - Bellarmine University
• The Eastern Progress – Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond
• The Hill - Henderson Community College
• The Kentucky Kernel – University of Kentucky, Lexington
• The Louisville Cardinal - University of Louisville
• The Murray State News - Murray State University
• The Northerner - Northern Kentucky University
• The Patriot Newspaper - University of the Cumberlands
• The Pinnacle – Berea College, Berea^[94]
• The Quadrangle - Jefferson Community and Technical College
• The Rambler - Transylvania University
• The Thorobred News - Kentucky State University^[95]
• The Trail Blazer - Morehead State University, Morehead^[96]

Defunct newspapers

See also

• Kentucky media
  • List of radio stations in Kentucky
  • List of television stations in Kentucky
  • Media of cities in Kentucky: Bowling Green, Lexington, Louisville
• Journalism:
  • Category:Journalists from Kentucky
  • Western Kentucky University School of Journalism and Broadcasting (est. 1999), in Bowling Green^[107]
  • Murray State University Department of Journalism and Mass Communications (est. 1975)^[108]
• Kentucky literature

U.S. newspapers

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• James T. Haley, ed. (1895), "Newspapers: Kentucky", Afro-American Encyclopaedia, Nashville: Haley & Florida, hdl:2027/inu.30000029292855, OCLC 219597043
• "Kentucky". American Newspaper Directory. New York: George P. Rowell. 1900. pp. 361+. hdl:2027/umn.31951002273861a.
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• Thomas D. Clark (1948). Southern Country Editor. Bobbs-Merrill. OCLC 525858. (Includes information about weekly rural newspapers in Kentucky)

External links

• "Kentucky Newspapers". Historical U.S. Newspapers Online. Library Guides. Ohio: Bowling Green State University. Newspapers that are freely available on the Internet
• "Southeast". Historical African American Newspapers Available Online. Subject Guides. Poughkeepsie, NY: Marist College Library. (Includes Kentucky newspapers)
• International Coalition on Newspapers. "Newspaper Digitization Projects: United States: Kentucky". Chicago: Center for Research Libraries.
• University of Florida. "Kentucky". NewspaperCat: Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers. Gainesville.
• "Kentucky". N-Net: the Newspaper Network on the World Wide Web. Archived from the original on February 15, 1997.
• "Kentucky Newspapers". AJR News Link. American Journalism Review. Archived from the original on March 2, 2000.
• "United States: Kentucky". NewsDirectory.com. Toronto: Tucows Inc. Archived from the original on November 20, 2001.
• Kentucky Digital Newspaper Program online library of digitized and digital Kentucky newspapers, University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center