The Jasper Newsboy is the newspaper of Jasper

Jasper, Texas

Jasper is the county seat of Jasper County, Texas, in the United States. The population was 8,247 at the 2000 census. Jasper is situated in the Deep East Texas subregion, about northeast of Houston. The city is best known for the 1998 murder of James Byrd, Jr., an event which gained national...

, Jasper County, Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

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United States

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A weekly newspaper, the Jasper Newsboy has been published continuously since July 1865, making it the oldest continuously published weekly newspaper in Texas.

The Jasper Newsboy is a part of the Beaumont Enterprise

Beaumont Enterprise

The Beaumont Enterprise is a newspaper of the Hearst Corporation, headquartered in Beaumont. It has been in operation since 1880.In addition to BeaumontEnterprise.com and the daily newspaper, The Enterprise produces several weeklies—the Jasper Newsboy, the Hardin County News, the Mid County...

, a Hearst Corporation

Hearst Corporation

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, also owners of the Houston Chronicle

Houston Chronicle

The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Texas, USA, headquartered in the Houston Chronicle Building in Downtown Houston. , it is the ninth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States...

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It is distributed in the Jasper trade area, which includes parts of Jasper, Newton

Newton County, Texas

Newton County is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of Texas. In of 2000, its population was 15,072. Its county seat is Newton. Newton county is named for John Newton, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War...

, Sabine and Tyler counties.