Howard Publications

Howard Publications was a family-owned company of newspapers in the United States. It owned 16 daily newspapers when it sold to Lee Enterprises for $694 million in 2002.

Robert S. Howard founded the company in 1961. As of early 1972, group owned nine daily newspapers. Lee Enterprises announced that it would acquire the company on February 12, 2002, for $694 million, with a closing later that year. At the time of the sale, Howard employed 2,400 people, and its papers had a total daily circulation of 479,000.

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