The Bolivar Commercial was a newspaper in Cleveland, Mississippi from 1916 to 2020.
[2] Amid large revenue losses associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, Commercial owner Lee Walls in April 2020 announced that the newspaper would cease publication at the end of the month.
[3] In his statement detailing the reasons for the newspaper's closure, Walls cited the rise of Facebook and other social media, as well as the demise of a local car dealership that had been one of the Commercial's primary advertisers.
At the time of its closure, the paper published a print edition just two days a week and employed a staff of nine full-time employees and one part-time.
It was the only printed newspaper in Bolivar County and had been in circulation for 104 years when its closure was announced.