  More than three-quarters of a million people from coast to coast subscribe to Morris Communications Company’s 44 newspapers — 31 dailies and 13 nondailies — in 15 states, reaching from Florida to Alaska to Texas to Minnesota.
Morris Communications broadened its newspaper coverage throughout the nation in 1995 when the purchase of Stauffer Communications Inc. of Topeka, Kan., was completed, adding 20 daily newspapers. Morris newspapers range in size from The Florida Times-Union, a daily in Jacksonville with a Sunday circulation of 250,000, to the Vermillion Plain Talk, a 3,000-circulation weekly in South Dakota. During 1998 and early 1999, MCC purchased nine nondaily newspapers: one in Georgia, four in Colorado, two in South Carolina and two in Minnesota. Another debuted in late 1999 in Alaska, and a second was purchased in early 2000. Subscribers to Morris newspapers live in Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Alaska, Kansas, Arkansas, Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota and Tennessee. Morris Communications Company is descended from The Augusta Chronicle, established in 1785, and the South’s oldest newspaper in continuous publication. The corporation has been a technological leader in the newspaper industry since the 1800s. During the past few decades, The Augusta Chronicle was among the nation’s pacesetters in offset printing and in new technology resulting in totally computerized newsrooms and production departments. It was one of the first to use computerized typesetting, to have totally computerized newsrooms and production departments and to switch to an offset press.
Most of MCC’s dailies are now online, offering information on the Internet as well as through their traditional printed pages. A majority of them also offer audiotex, a voice information service that gives callers up-to-the-minute information ranging from stock quotes to sports scores to horoscopes. Augmenting the news coverage provided by the 31 dailies is Morris News Service. Established in 1987, the news service has become a leading supplier of both regional and national news. Morris News Service has bureaus in Atlanta and Austin, Texas, but utilizes the strengths and talents of all Morris writers and reporters in providing in-depth regionalized reporting on news and special projects. The news service emphasizes coverage of news and issues of particular importance to readers of Morris dailies, enabling them to receive expanded and enhanced coverage of the business world, political scene, sports and general news. This regionalized coverage, not always supplied by national news services, provides information with localized interest and flavor.
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