[2] The Gleaner was locally owned for more than a century, but was purchased by A. H. Belo in March 1997, before being acquired by the E. W. Scripps Company on October 31, 2000,[3] becoming part of the Evansville Courier & Press.
[5] The Gleaner was founded by Clarence Christian Givens in 1883 in Providence, Kentucky, approximately 35 miles south of Henderson.
It became a daily publication in 1888, with the exception that it produced no Monday edition, and was published as the Henderson Morning Gleaner.
Leigh Harris of Illinois, bought the Journal, and his first editorial consisted of the single sentence: "I have come to Henderson to run a newspaper".
Harris chaired numerous Henderson causes and committees, including serving as chairman of the local American Red Cross chapter during the Ohio River flood of 1937.
Harris noted in the newspaper that Henderson was "on the Ohio but never in it", using that as a marketing tool as he and other prominent citizens worked to attract new industries to the city.
When the newspaper dropped the word "Journal" from its masthead on April 27, 1973,[8] it also changed the print to lower case, as "the gleaner".
"[10] The newspaper constructed a new office and printing plant at 455 Klutey Park Plaza in the city suburbs, relocating there in 1976.