The News-Gazette (Champaign–Urbana)

The News-Gazette
The Stevick Building in downtown Champaign, Illinois, home of The News-Gazette from 1984 to 2020
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Community Media Group, Inc. Champaign Multimedia Group, LLC
PublisherPaul Barrett
EditorJim Rossow
Founded1852 (as Urbana Union)
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters2101 Fox Drive Champaign, Illinois 61820
CountryUnited States
Circulation22,000–30,000
ISSN1042-3354
Websitenews-gazette.com
Free online archivesIllinois Digital Newspaper Collections: Champaign Daily News (1895–1919)

The News-Gazette is a daily newspaper serving eleven counties in the eastern portion of Central Illinois and specifically the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area. Since November 2019 it is published daily Tuesday through Sunday. Based in Champaign, Illinois, the paper is owned, along with sister radio stations WDWS, WKIO and WHMS, by Community Media Group, Inc., which purchased it in November 2019 after the paper filed for bankruptcy. The News-Gazette has 23,000 subscribers and 50,000 daily readers as of 2025. The newspaper's website is the most viewed commercial website in East Central Illinois as of 2015. It is viewed by around 30,000–35,000 unique visitors a day, and receives 3.5 million page views per month.