The Examiner (Missouri)

The Examiner is the daily newspaper of eastern Jackson County, Missouri, including Independence, Blue Springs and Grain Valley. It is published five days a week – Tuesday through Saturday – and its webpage is at www.examiner.net.

The Examiner

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	CherryRoad Media
Publisher	Julie Moreno
Editor	Jeff Fox
Founded	February 19, 1898 (1898-02-19), as The Jackson Examiner[1]
Headquarters	410 South Liberty Street, Independence, Missouri, United States
Circulation	6,750[2]
OCLC number	28205230
Website	examiner.net

The Examiner was first published as a weekly newspaper in 1898 by Col. William Southern. The daily edition began publication as The Independence Examiner May 16, 1905.^[3] The official Examiner website was launched in 1996.

The paper was formerly owned by Stauffer Communications, which was acquired by Morris Communications in 1995.^[4] Morris sold the paper, along with 13 others, to GateHouse Media in 2007.^[5]

Audrey Stubbart, an American centenarian, worked for The Examiner until the age of 104.