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  • 1854
    LAYING THE FOUNDATION

    Greenville’s first newspaper hit the press in
    1854, ten years after John Green settled next
    to the Flat River. The single-sheet Montcalm
    Reflector
    was printed whenever an event
    occurred. Two years later, it was sold and
    became The Greenville Independent.

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  • 1854
    GROWTH IN GREENVILLE

    Fred H. Goodrich bought the paper, turning
    it into a daily and changing its name to the
    Independent Daily News. Later that year,
    it merged with the Daily Call and became
    known as the Greenville Daily News.

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  • 1854
    THE STAFFORDS STEP IN

    Dale Stafford, Managing Editor of the
    Detroit Free Press, began looking for a small
    town where he could move his family and buy
    a newspaper. He found both of these ideals in
    Greenville and the Greenville Daily News. Under
    Stafford, the Daily News became the nation’s
    third daily paper—and the first in the Midwest—
    to convert to the offset and cold type printing
    processes, ahead of the Detroit News and the
    Chicago Tribune. The progressive-thinking paper
    was also the first east of the Mississippi to use
    computerized typesetting equipment.

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  • 1854
    COMMERCIAL PRINTING BEGINS

    Four offset printing units were on the floor and
    the Daily News had become the pioneer of offset
    newspaper printing. At one time, more than 40
    regular publications were produced on Daily News
    presses. When colorful newspaper advertising
    supplements gained popularity, Dale and his son,
    John, who came into the business in the mid-60s,
    formed a separate printing company called Printco.
    After Dale’s death and with the commercial print
    industry growing, John moved Printco to a new
    site in Greenville.

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  • 1854
    THE LEGACY EXPANDS

    Eventually, John sold Printco, which is
    now called Quad Graphics, and focused his
    efforts on turning the Daily News into an
    award-winning newspaper. With one press
    remaining at the Daily News, John began
    pursuing small commercial jobs to help pay
    its way. Business once again began to boom
    and News Web was born. Like his father,
    John was a smart businessman who was great
    at reading people and had impeccable timing
    with business decisions. In 1990, he was
    joined by his son Rob, who also has a business
    background. Because News Web needed
    more elbow room, the daily newspaper
    production and presses once again split
    and all printing moved to a bigger location
    in Greenville.

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  • 1854
    STILL AHEAD OF THE CURVE

    After his father passed, Rob took over as
    president and publisher of what is now Stafford.
    In 2012, he was joined by his sister, Julie Stafford,
    who has a journalism background and runs the
    publishing business. Today, we still publish the
    Daily News six days a week, as well as the Carson
    City Gazette
    and the Daily News Extra once a week.
    We offer e-edition apps, a free website, and an
    active social media presence. The printing side of
    Stafford serves companies all over the Midwest,
    including the Grand Rapids Business Journal and
    CM Life. We’ve been sought out for unique inserts,
    local projects for Greenville schools, and the 2012
    Art Prize program. Overall, we have more than
    100 titles—weekly, monthly, and quarterly. And in
    spite of what you hear about the newspaper
    business, we’re going strong.

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