Swift Communications, headquartered in Carson City, Nevada, is a media and communications company with daily and weekly publications based in parts of California, Nevada, Oregon, Colorado, Nebraska, and South Dakota, including several that are award-winning. Some of the publications produced by Swift Communications are the Tahoe Daily Tribune, the Northern Nevada Business Weekly, the Glenwood Springs Post Independent, the Grand Junction Free Press, and the Farmer & Rancher Exchange. Philip E. Swift founded Swift Communications in 1975, after leaving the Swift Division of Scripps League of Newspapers. As an employer, Swift Communications has offered full-time and telecommuting work opportunities in the past.