Advertising is a critical investment in the success of your business, and one of the best investments you can make is to advertise in the Batesville Daily Guard.

The Batesville Daily Guard was the first newspaper dedicated to covering Independence and surrounding counties and has been for 129 years.

We cover Independence and surrounding counties.

The Batesville Daily Guard provides you with a unique opportunity to reach the vast majority of the local residents Monday through Friday with an average of 9,500 papers every day. These are distributed by city and rural carriers and by mail to our subscribers. Additional single copies are sold from newsstands that are placed in high traffic areas.

Our advertising sales people assist our advertisers in developing ad copy that best portrays the client's product and service offered to help assure a positive return on investment. We offer you our advertising rate schedule to help you with your business needs.

Please take the time to look it over. We are convinced that we are indeed the right investment for your business. We look forward to serving you.

Contact our advertising staff today!


Mike Smith
Advertising manager
advertising@guardonline.com

Shelly Garth
Classified advertising
classifieds@guardonline.com

Randy Harris
Advertising representative
randy@guardonline.com

Kay Tharp
Special Sections Editor
kaytharp@guardonline.com

Trudy Whiteaker
Advertising representative
trudyw@guardonline.com