Niagara Falls Reporter
The Niagara Reporter is a conservative weekly newspaper hosted in Niagara Falls, New York. It was founded on June 28, 2000 by journalist Mike Hudson. The newspaper is currently owned by Frank R. Parlato, Jr., who additionally serves as one of the newspaper's contributors. The paper has investigative stories which focus on alleged public corruption, politics, and local news. The "Niagara Reporter" has also begun accepting classified ads and serves as one of the largest news publications in Niagara County. History. The "Niagara Falls Reporter" was launched on June 28, 2000, by veteran journalist Mike Hudson , who had previously worked for newspapers in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York City. Hudson had also previously been a reporter for the "Niagara Gazette" and was the lead singer of Cleveland punk band The Pagans. He died on October 27, 2017. The "Reporter" played a central role in the Laborers Local 91 story, in which the entire leadership of the Niagara Falls union pleaded or were found guilty on numerous federal charges of extortion and racketeering. The case resulted in Hudson being the only journalist subpoenaed to testify in the trials. The paper also uncovered evidence that began a federal  investigation and subsequent indictment of former Niagara Falls Mayor Vince Anello on charges of public corruption. The "Reporter" published a series of articles from late 2008 through 2010 on the twin leases that the Maid of the Mist boat tour company had with the Niagara Parks Commission (NPC) in both Ontario and New York. The "Reporter" was the first paper to publish the terms of the leases and to report that the NPC secretly reduced the rent while excluding other bidders. In late 2009, the minister of tourism for the province of Ontario ordered the Maid of the Mist's  lease to be offered to external bidders for the first time in the history of Niagara Parks. In 2011, the city council of Niagara Falls voted to endorse the "Niagara Falls Reporter" as the council's weekly newspaper for publishing its public announcements as well as any other matters the council wishes to be printed or published.