The Vail Daily is a free newspaper covering local news in the Eagle Valley, sometimes called the Vail Valley, of Eagle County, Colorado. The paper focuses on the town of Vail which sits below Vail Mountain Resort, one of the largest winter resorts in North America. It reports on local news, sports, community events, mountain conditions, lifestyles as well as arts and entertainment.
Jim Pavelich started the Vail Daily on June 15, 1981. He owned the newspaper until Swift Newspapers, later Swift Communications, purchased it on October 1, 1993.
The paper is part of a newspaper group called Colorado Mountain News Media, a division of Swift Communications. In December 2021, Ogden Newspapers of West Virginia acquired the newspapers of Swift Communications and chose to keep using the Swift company name for them. The company controlling the non-newspaper assets of Swift was then renamed Questor Corporation.
Circulation estimate: 13,000
This newspaper is owned by Ogden Newspapers, Inc.
For Vail Daily contact information, see the Colorado news media contacts at EasyMediaList.com.
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-- In December 2018, Nate Peterson replaced Krista Driscoll as the editor of the Vail Daily.
Posted by Mondo Times Editors, Boulder Colorado, January 25, 2019
-- On October 6, 2010, the Vail Daily reported:
"Vail reclaimed the No. 2 spot on SKI magazine's list of top North American ski areas this year.
But for the fourth year in a row, Vail trailed behind Deer Valley Resort in Park City, Utah.
The rankings will appear in SKI Magazine's resort guide issue in late October, Editorial Director Greg Ditrinco said. The magazine has about 450,000 readers, mostly in the...
-- Don Rogers was named the editor and publisher of the Vail Daily on April 3, 2009. Rogers has been associate publisher of the Vail Daily since August 2008.
Bob Brown, the president of Swift Communications, which owns the Vail Daily, made the announcement.
"I am delighted Don will be at the helm of Colorado Mountain News Media's largest newspaper," Brown said. "During the past several months, he has...
-- There's newspaper war in Vail Colorado, Clyde Davis' Free-daily blog reported on March 27, 2009:
"A battle between the two free dailies in the beautiful ski resort of Vail is getting downright ugly.
The Vail Daily, the town's 25-year-old chain-owned paper, has obtained a deal with the local Starbucks stores to keep the other paper out of those stores. The other paper, the Vail Mountaineer,...Also in Colorado...
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