Swift Communications

After four decades of ownership by the Swift family, Swift Communications was purchased by another family-run newspaper group, Ogden Newspapers. Swift retained the name and continues publishing award-winning newspapers as Swift Communications.

Founded on September 22, 1890 with H. C. Ogden’s launch of the Wheeling News, Ogden Newspapers has since grown to over 50 daily newspapers, along with a number of weeklies and a magazine division – stretching from New York to Hawaii.

Throughout that time, the company has been committed to excellence in journalism through service and leadership in their communities. Newspapering has changed over time – long gone are the days of hot lead typesetting and linotype machines – but our core values as a company have not. We believe local newspapers should not only report the news of the day, but also tell the stories of their communities, and of the people who live there. We take writing the first draft of history seriously.