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=== Newspapers === Wood County has five newspapers published within its borders: ''Wood County Now, Wood County Monitor, Winnsboro News, Yantis Tymes'', and ''The Community Chronicle''. The ''Winnsboro News'' also serves Franklin County, as Winnsboro is split between the two counties. ;'' Wood County Monitor'' In August 2016, two of the county's longstanding newspaper operations, the ''[[Mineola Monitor]]'' and the ''[[Wood County Democrat]]'', were merged by their owner, Bluebonnet Publishing.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|url=http://woodcountymonitor.com/stories/newspaper-merger,99659|title=Newspaper Merger|newspaper=Wood County Monitor|access-date=November 11, 2016}}</ref> Prior to that, the ''Mineola Monitor'' operated under its own masthead in Mineola, and the ''Wood County Democrat'' operated under its own masthead in Quitman. Staffing at the newspapers did not change, and the staffs of both newspapers were merged.<ref name=":3" /> ;''Winnsboro News'' ''[[Winnsboro News|The Winnsboro News]]'', founded in {{start date|1908}},<ref name="Wayback_TPA">{{Cite web | url = http://texaspress.com/custom_pages/newspapers1/detail.php?paper_id=685 | title = Display Newspaper Details | website = Texas Press Association | access-date= March 5, 2021| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161126003151/http://texaspress.com/custom_pages/newspapers1/detail.php?paper_id=685 | archive-date = November 26, 2016 | url-status=dead | df = dmy-all}}</ref> is a weekly newspaper in Winnsboro, serving Wood and [[Franklin County, Texas|Franklin Counties]]. In August 2003, the newspaper gained notoriety for publishing an editorial by publisher Tom Pendergast outing an LGBTQ couple living in the city.<ref name="OverTheEdge">{{cite magazine | last1 = Grimes | first1 = Andrea | author-link1 = | title = Over the Edge | url = https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/over-the-edge-6380731 | date = October 6, 2005 | url-status = live | magazine = [[Dallas Observer]] | language = en-us | publisher = [[Voice Media Group]] | issn = 0732-0299 | oclc = 7095491 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171227135633/https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/over-the-edge-6380731 | archive-date = December 27, 2017 | access-date = July 23, 2021 | quote = Tom Pendergast, the editor and publisher of the local newspaper with a penchant for picking public fights. On August 21, 2003, Pendergast published a scathing editorial in the Winnsboro News titled 'About Fully Informing the Citizens.' The 500-word article condemned the couple's homosexual lifestyle as 'despicable' and 'disgusting'. It would change everything for Bear and Carmichael, even Winnsboro itself; the days of peaceful coexistence were past. | df = dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="ConsumerAffairs">{{cite news | last1 = Hood | first1 = James R. | date = November 2, 2006 | title = Newspaper 'Outing' Blamed for Innkeeper's Death β Gay innkeeper's friends say local paper was merciless | url = https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/11/newspaper_outing.html | url-status = live | work = [[ConsumerAffairs]] | language = en-us | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071011160633/https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/11/newspaper_outing.html | archive-date = October 11, 2007 | access-date = July 23, 2021 | quote = Pendergast said he feels no responsibility for Bear's death... | df = dmy-all}}</ref> ;''Wood County Now'' In 2020, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, a free news source available by social media and online was established. Owner Amanda Duncan originally created the social-media accounts to keep residents informed of the pandemic and rising case numbers, and to help showcase small businesses that were financially struggling. Within eight months, the news outlet grew to be the largest social-media and online news source in Wood County.
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