About the Hannibal Courier-Post

Carpenter Media Group, assumed ownership of Missouri’s oldest daily newspaper in September of 2024.

The Courier-Post began printing daily in 1853, with a lineage that dates even earlier to various weekly publications in the region. In 1907, the paper’s publisher Thomas B. Morse sold the paper to Lee Enterprises of Davenport, Iowa.

Gatehouse Media bought the Courier-Post in 2007, Quincy acquired the Courier-Post in 2019, and Phillips Media Group purchased it in 2021.