
36 Washington Ave W
Hutchinson, MN 55350
Phone: 320-587-5000
Named the nation's best non-daily newspaper of its size by the National Newspaper Association and Inland Press Association.
The Hutchinson Leader is published every Tuesday and Thursday.
hutchinsonleader.com is the primary site for the Hutchinson area. Up-to-date news, real estate, jobs, auto and classified listings and information make it a destination for over 185,000 page views a month.
Published Sundays, the Leader Shopper has a total market coverage of 19 cities in the trade area.




The Leader’s roots go back 129 years to when Civil War veteran Calvin P. Smith founded it in July 1880 as a weekly paper. Now published Tuesday and Thursday, the Leader has an audited circulation of 5.444 and is recognized as a top newspaper in both Minnesota and the U.S.
The Weekend Leader Shopper is a companion paper with an audited circulation of 22,523.
The Leader’s Web site, hutchinsonleader.com, carries news as well as a significant amount of community information, history, classified, real estate, automotive and employment advertising.
The neighboring Litchfield Independent Review and Meeker County Advertiser are sister papers of the Leader. The Independent Review was founded four years before the Leader in 1876.
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