The Joplin Globe is a broadsheet newspaper serving the residents of Southwest Missouri, Southeast Kansas, Northeast Oklahoma, and Northwest Arkansas.The Joplin Globe is a seven-day daily newspaper published in Joplin, Missouri, United States, covering parts of 14 counties in southwestern Missouri. Ottaway Community Newspapers owned the Globe from 1975 to 2002. Since 2002, it has been owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. The newspaper was founded in 1896.