The Daily Nonpareil
The Daily Nonpareil is a daily newspaper serving Council Bluffs and a 10-county area of southwest Iowa.
The Daily Nonpareil is southwest Iowa's largest newspaper. It was founded on May 2, 1857.
The paper was acquired in 2011 by Berkshire Hathaway when it bought the paper's then parent the Omaha World-Herald and its other subsidiary newspapers in Kearney, Nebraska, Grand Island, Nebraska, York, Nebraska, North Platte, Nebraska and Scottsbluff, Nebraska. The World-Herald acquired partial ownership in 2000 and full ownership in 2007.
In 2020, Lee Enterprises purchased BH Media Group's newspapers. This purchase included The Daily Nonpareil, the Clarinda Herald-Journal, the Shenandoah Valley News Today, the Logan-Woodbine Twiner, and the Denison Bulletin-Review. On March 16, 2020, Lee officially took over as The Daily Nonpareil's parent company.
Unusually, the paper made a dual-party endorsement in 2016, endorsing both Bernie Sanders and John Kasich as the best-qualified nominees of the two major parties.
From 1965 to 2000 it was owned by newspaper chains including Thomson Newspapers and MediaNews Group.
