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The Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction, Colo., is the largest daily newspaper between Denver and Salt Lake City. The Sentinel’s companion Web site, GJSentinel.com, was founded in 1996. The Daily Sentinel’s offices and press are located at 734 S. Seventh St.

Publishers
Jay Seaton, 2009 to present

Alex Taylor, 2007–2009

George Orbanek, 1985–2007

James Kennedy, 1979–1985

Ken Johnson, 1970–1979

Preston Walker, 1956–1970

Walter Walker, 1911–1956

L.N. Bunting, 1893–1911

Ownership
In July, 2009, the newspaper was sold to Kansas-based Seaton Publishing Co., and a new Grand Junction Media Co. was formed. Jay Seaton became publisher of The Daily Sentinel and executive vice president of Grand Junction Media. His brother, Ned Seaton, is president. Their father, Ed Seaton, is chairman. The Seaton family can trace its roots in journalism back two centuries to the National Intelligencer in Washington, D.C., in 1812. Seaton Publishing is a family business based in Manhattan, Kan., that publishes the daily newspaper in that city. It’s associated with family-owned newspaper companies in Arkansas City and Winfield, Kan.; Alliance and Hastings, Neb.; Spearfish, S.D.; and Sheridan, Wyo., in addition to radio stations in Manhattan, Kan. In 2007 The Daily Sentinel was named Large Business of the Year by the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce for "the paper's lengthy history of community involvement."