The other is The Tupelo Daily Journal, located about 50 miles south of Corinth.
They both compete for market share with The Clarion-Ledger out of Jackson, Mississippi, which considers itself a statewide paper, as well as with the West Tennessee daily papers (the Commercial Appeal and the Jackson Sun).
[citation needed] The Daily Corinthian was formerly owned by Worrell Newspapers of Charlottesville, Virginia.
The New York Times Company acquired 8 daily papers, including the Corinthian, from Worrell in 1982.
[2] It is currently owned by the Paxton Media Group, which bought it from The New York Times in 1995.