After The State in Columbia and Charleston's The Post and Courier, it is the third largest paper in South Carolina.

After five different owners and many editors, the Peace family under the leadership of Bony Hampton Peace bought the paper in 1919 from Ellison Adger Smyth, around the same time that Greenville was becoming known as "The Textile Center of the South."

In December 1985 Gannett purchased Multimedia, changing the newspaper name back to The Greenville News.

A free publication, it is available at more than 1,100 locations in Anderson, Greenville, Pickens and Spartanburg counties.

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