The newspaper was founded as a
daily in 1909. Brown, a
Cincinnati-based family business, purchased the
Daily News in April 2001, integrating it with the
Piqua Daily Call and
Sidney Daily News as its "
I-75 Group", sharing the printing plant at Tipp City. In February 2009, these three newspapers stopped printing Tuesday editions because of the weak economy, reducing the Troy paper to six publication days per week, including the
Miami Valley Sunday News. Brown Publishing filed for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on April 30, 2010; its Ohio assets, including 14 daily newspapers and about 30 weeklies, were transferred to a new business,
Ohio Community Media, which was purchased in May 2011 by
Philadelphia-based Versa Capital Management. In 2012 Versa merged Ohio Community Media, former
Freedom papers it had acquired,
Impressions Media, and
Heartland Publications into a new company,
Civitas Media. Civitas Media sold its Ohio papers to
AIM Media Midwest, a subsidiary of
AIM Media Management, in 2017. On December 5, 2018, AIM Media Midwest merged the
Troy Daily News and
Piqua Daily Call into a single daily newspaper,
Miami Valley Today. The two former rival newspapers moved into a single newsroom in a building across the street from the
Miami County Fairgrounds, roughly midway between the two cities. The merger eventually resulted in staffing cuts. In February 2023,
Miami Valley Today reduced its publishing schedule to Wednesdays and Sundays as part of cost-cutting across AIM Media Midwest. == Notable alumni ==