Hannibal Courier-Post Jobs and Profile

The Hannibal Courier-Post is Missouri's oldest daily newspaper, tracing its heritage to 1838. It counts Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) among its past employees. He was a printer's devil (apprentice in the composing room setting pages in the old wooden block forms that made pages). He tells the story of going up to the newsroom at night when the owner and editor were not there and working in that department as a proofreader. Because of that, Samuel Clemens said, he could call himself an editor.

Morris Communications bought the Courier-Post in the mid-1990s as a part of the Stauffer Communications purchase. It is a daily newspaper published Monday through Saturday (our "Weekend" edition is dated for Saturday and Sunday and comes out on Saturday). It is a morning newspaper of approximately 8,500 circulation. It is the leading news and advertising source in the region and competes with the Quincy Herald-Whig from Quincy, Illinois, across the river. The Courier-Post's Web site, hannibal.net, is the most viewed Web site in the entire tri-state region (comprising west-central Illinois, northeast Missouri and southeast Iowa), with approximately 1.5 million filtered page views each month.