With plans to bring ownership of a vital component of life in Southeast Kansas, an agreement has been reached by a group of Pittsburg families to acquire the Pittsburg Morning Sun from the current owner Gannett Co., Inc. They will also assume operation of the Columbus News-Report in Columbus.
According to Pittsburg attorney Kevin Mitchelson, Pittsburg Publishing Co., L.L.C. recently was organized by a group of Pittsburg and Southeast Kansas families whose goal is to once again make The Morning Sun a locally owned newspaper.
Larry Hiatt, the current publisher and editor of the Columbus News-Report, will serve as the initial publisher and editor, and is planning the transition to local ownership and management. He was a former employee at the Morning Sun in the early 1960s.
