It covers the city of Greenfield and several nearby communities in Hancock County, Indiana.
Home News also owns a third weekly in neighboring Madison County, The Times-Post.
[4] Robert N. Brown, whose grandfather had started The Republic in Columbus and who himself had founded the Daily Journal in Franklin, both in communities south of Indianapolis, purchased the Greenfield Daily Reporter in 1973, a year after the death of Dorothea Spencer, whose family had started the paper in 1908.
[6] Home News expanded its holdings east of Indianapolis in June 2007, with the purchase of two weeklies in Madison County, the Lapel Post and The Pendleton Times, which it combined into the Times-Post of Pendleton.
In mid-August 2023, it was announced that the Daily Reporter, along with several of its sister newspapers, would see a reduction of print publication days starting Sept. 2, 2023.