The Paducah Sun

Paxton Media Group owns about 30 daily newspapers in the Midwest and South, including its flagship The Paducah Sun (Kentucky) and The Herald-Sun (Durham, North Carolina). The company also owns several dozen weekly papers and more than 100 free papers, as well as a television station in Paducah, Kentucky. The Paxton Media Group began in 1896 with W.P. Paxton who launched of The Paducah Evening Sun.