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Established in 1923, the DeQuincy News is now in its 85th year and is the second oldest business in DeQuincy. Joel R. Smith and Willa Attaway were the first publishers. Francis and Vera Masingill published the paper from 1925 to 1965, when they sold the News to Jerry and Joy Wise, who are the current publishers. Their daughter, Jeffra Wise DeViney, is the advertising manager and assistant publisher. News office is located at 203 East Harrison Street in DeQuincy. The paper has a circulation area that covers North Calcasieu and South Beauregard parishes and is published weekly on Wednesdays.

AmericanPress.com is the Web site of the American Press, Lake Charles, La. The American Press is the flagship newspaper of the Shearman Corporation, which also owns newspapers in Hobbs, N.M., and Trinidad, Colo. The American Press was Southwest Louisiana's first daily newspaper, founded in 1895 under another name. The American Press has had its greatest successes during the Shearmans' half-century of ownership. Its achievements began with the newspaper's crusade in the 1950s against illegal gambling and have since included national and regional awards in all facets of news gathering, Pulitzer Prize nominations for writing and photography and top honors for excellence in advertising. In annual Louisiana-Mississippi Associated Press and Louisiana Press Association competitions, the American Press consistently is judged among the best in its class in news, writing, coverage, sports, art and design.

The Beaumont Enterprise is recognized by the Texas State Historical Survey Committee as the oldest business institution in southeast Texas and has been serving this region since 1880 with news coverage. In addition to being a daily newspaper, the company publishes several weekly newspapers that include the Jasper NewsBoy, the Hardin County News, the Mid County Chronicle, the Orange County News and the Beaumont Journal. It also produces the Southeast Texas Business Monthly, Marketplace of Southeast Texas, Homes of Southeast Texas and Savor!. It also manages and operates the Web site SoutheastTexasLive.com. The Beaumont Enterprise is divided into news, sports, outdoors, life, entertainment, business and technology and opinion sections.