The Daily Independent (Ashland newspaper) The Daily Independent (Ashland newspaper) The Daily Independent (also known as The Sunday Independent and formerly known as The Independent from 2003 to 2015) is a seven-day morning daily newspaper covering the city of Ashland and surrounding areas of Boyd County, Kentucky. It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. Launched December 17, 1896 as the "Tri-State Independent" Col. G. F. Friel of nearby Catlettsburg, Kentucky, the newspaper moved to 12th Street and Greenup Avenue in Ashland in 1900 as the "Ashland Daily Independent"; it absorbed the "Ashland Commercial" in the move. The first publication after the move was on
The Daily Reveille titles such as Best Newspaper on both state and regional levels. Its community-focused efforts earned the paper a 2003 Associated Collegiate Press National Pacemaker Award, the highest award granted to student publications. The "Daily Reveille" won the "Editor & Publisher" award, or EPPY, in 2008 for best college newspaper website. "Princeton Review" named the "Daily Reveille" as the tenth-best college newspaper in the nation in its 2010 edition of the "Best 361 Colleges." The "Daily Reveille" is printed by Baton Rouge Press in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and was formally printed by Signature Offset in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The paper is delivered