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The Spokesman-Review is the largest news and information provider in the Inland Northwest. The newspaper traces its origin to the founding of the Spokane Falls Review in 1883. In 1893, the Review merged with its rival, The Spokesman, under the leadership of Publisher William H. Cowles. Later the company would buy the Spokane Daily Chronicle, which continued as a separate newspaper until Review and Chronicle newsrooms merged in 1983. The Chronicle existed until 1992. The Spokesman-Review is still owned by the Cowles family, whose members continue to reside in Spokane and are actively involved in civic betterment efforts in addition to Cowles Company operations. Today, publisher William Stacey Cowles represents the fourth generation of his family to oversee the newspaper.

Western News & Info Inc. operates a wide array of businesses throughout the Southwest. The portfolio of businesses includes news, entertainment, and advertising publications. Along with two commercial printing facilities. WNI also operates Del Outdoor, a billboard company throughout parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Southern California as well as Sign Pro Yuma for any and all outdoor marketing needs. In addition to outdoor advertising, print publishing and printing WNI also operates 928 Media Lab a cutting edge digital marketing advertising company. In total WNI maintains upwards of 50 websites across a wide array of outside customers and internal WNI businesses.

For more than 125 years, The Billings Gazette has been the region's primary source for news and information. From our first issue, printed on a single sheet of paper on May 3, 1885, we have grown to become the largest newspaper in Montana and Northern Wyoming. Our newspaper story is one of growth and transformation. In addition to our widely-circulated print edition, our Web site, billingsgazette.com, has emerged as the number two medium in the region, second only to The Billings Gazette. Averaging more than 10 million page views each month, billingsgazette.com offers breaking news, video reporting, blogs and photo galleries. Each week, The Billings Gazette and billingsgazette.com together reach 90 percent of adults in our market. Plus, we are touching every demographic group either through print or the internet. As a community newspaper, our focus is on local news. We give readers a sense of pride, a sense of identity and a sense of belonging to our community.