The Omaha World-Herald, the Omaha Bee, and by 1900 the Omaha Daily News had developed into the city's most influential journals.
The African American community in Omaha has had several newspapers serve it. The first was the Progress, established in 1889 by Ferdinand L. Barnett. Cyrus D. Bell, an ex-slave, established the Afro-American Sentinel in 1892. In 1893 George F. Franklin started publishing the Enterprise, later published by Thomas P. Mahammitt. It was the longest lived of any of the early African American newspapers published in Omaha. The best known and most widely read of all African American newspapers in the city was the Omaha Monitor, established in 1915, edited and published by Reverend John Albert Williams. It stopped being published in 1929. In 1906, Lucille Skaggs Edwards published, The Women's Aurora, making her the first black woman to publish a magazine in Nebraska.George Wells Parker, co-founder of the Hamitic League of the World, founded the New Era in Omaha from 1920 through until 1926. The Omaha Guide was established by B.V. and C.C. Galloway in 1927. The Guide, with a circulation of over twenty-five thousand and an advertisers' list including business firms from coast to coast, was the largest African American newspaper west of the Missouri River. The Omaha Star, founded by Mildred Brown, began publication in 1938, and continues today as the only African American newspaper in Omaha.[1][2]
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Historic
| Historic newspapers in the Omaha Metro area[3] alphabetical | |||||
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| Name | Description | ||||
| Arrow | Founded in 1854, it was the first newspaper in Omaha | ||||
| Nebraskian | Founded in 1854 | ||||
| Times | Founded in 1857 | ||||
| Democrat | Founded in 1858 | ||||
| Republican | Founded in 1858 under Dr. Gilbert C. Monell and from 1859 to 1861 was under E. D. Webster | ||||
| Telegraph | Founded in 1860 | ||||
| Daily Herald | Founded in 1865 under Dr. George L. Miller | ||||
| Daily Evening Tribune | Founded in 1870 with Phineas W. Hitchcock as a chief stockholder | ||||
| Evening Bee | Founded in 1871 | ||||
| Den Danske Pioneer | The Danish Pioneer was founded in Omaha in 1872 and printed in the city until 1958 | ||||
| Bee | Founded in 1874, bought by World-Herald in 1937 and closed | ||||
| The Evening World | Founded in 1885; purchased The Daily Herald in 1889 | ||||
| The Progress | Founded in 1889 by Ferdinand L. Barnett as an African-American newspaper | ||||
| Afro-American Sentinel | Founded in 1892 by Cyrus D. Bell as an African-American newspaper | ||||
| Enterprise | Founded in 1893 by George F. Franklin, later published by Thomas P. Mahammitt as an African-American newspaper | ||||
| The Women's Aurora | Founded in 1906 by Lucille Skaggs Edwards | ||||
| Omaha Tribune | Founded in 1912 as a national German-language weekly; publishing company still operates in Omaha as the Interstate Printing Company | ||||
| Omaha Monitor | Founded in 1915 by Father John Albert Williams as an African-American newspaper | ||||
| New Era | Founded in 1920 by George Wells Parker as an African-American newspaper | ||||
| Omaha Guide | Founded in 1927 by B.V. and C.C. Galloway as an African-American newspaper | ||||
