Daily Star (Louisiana)

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Daily Star (Louisiana)
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Paxton Media Group
PublisherMark Elliot
EditorLil Mirando
FoundedNovember 1959
Headquarters1010 C.M. Fagan Drive, Hammond, Louisiana, United States
Circulation 4,000 [1]

The Daily & Sunday Star is a newspaper published in Hammond, Louisiana, by the Daily Star Publishing Company. Currently, the publisher is Mark Elliot and the executive editor is Lil Mirando.

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The newspaper is a member of the Associated Press and the Louisiana Press Association, [2] The newspaper focuses on happenings in Tangipahoa Parish, where Hammond is located, and in Livingston Parish and St. Helena Parish, the three civil parishes (counties in other states) of its home-delivery circulation area.

History

The Daily Star began on November 12, 1959, as The Hammond Press, which on December 23 of the same year retitled itself The Hammond Item. The Daily & Sunday Star is the sole daily newspaper published in Hammond (as of 2011). [3] Its Sunday edition is The Sunday Star; The Daily Star is issued on five weekdays (Tuesday through Saturday, as of 2011).

In 2007, The Daily Star changed from being an afternoon newspaper to publishing in the morning, thereby within its three-parish circulation area competing head-to-head with The Advocate (Baton Rouge) and The Times-Picayune (New Orleans). The Daily Star has held its own by nuancing to this competitive environment in Louisiana's fastest-growing region. As of 2013, it had a paid circulation above 12 thousand, free (shopping) circulation of 35 thousand, and prodigious advertising, especially in the Thursday and Sunday editions. The Sunday Star circulates USA Weekend and includes a full comics section. [4]

Over the years The Daily Star has been owned by various media corporations. In 2013 it was owned by Paxton Media Group, headquartered in Kentucky.

By late 2020, The Daily Star only publishes on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. [5]

Role in Hurricane Katrina news

In 2005, during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, the Star (as it is often called locally) continued operation via emergency measures and skipped paper publication on just one day — Tuesday August 30 - the only date since 1959 that the Star had not published as scheduled. In the meantime, even on that Tuesday as during the preceding weekend, the Star staff was at work and, with the public power outage, used generators and laptop computers to maintain the newspaper's web site; issues for August 31 and September 1 and 2 were printed in Denham Springs. [6] During and after the storm the Star facilities in Hammond served as the temporary operations center for the Associated Press New Orleans bureau and as the temporary reporting-base for several newspapers from around the country in covering the New Orleans situation. With just one day of interrupted publication on paper, the Star published accounts of the hurricane and its aftermath, including controversies related to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). [7]

Opinion page

The Daily Star carries various national, state, and local columns. See The Daily Star local columnists. The Star's editorial policy is politically non-aligned, but occasionally since 1986 the newspaper has endorsed candidates. A major feature of The Daily Star is its letters to the editor, which are often vigorous about local or state issues and provide unique grassroots commentary. [8]

Notes

  1. "The Daily Star". Louisiana Press Association. Retrieved 2023-04-25.
  2. An organization in which The Daily Star has won numerous Louisiana Press Association awards. Archived 2012-09-03 at archive.today
  3. The Daily Star was not the first daily in Hammond but had several predecessors. (One of them was The Hammond Daily Courier, founded in 1932 by Hodding Carter.) The current newspaper, shortly after its founding, became The Hammond Daily Item and in 1960 The Star-Item. In 1961 the paper switched to the title The Daily Star and has held that name ever since.
  4. The Daily Star home page. For a statistical analysis of The Daily Star with relation to its primary circulation area and sales reach, see Knight Foundation study of The Daily Star staff's diversity (2005). See also MacRae's Business Directory on The Daily Star. Archived 2011-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
  5. phone call to office 1-25-21
  6. On the press of the Livingston Parish News.
  7. Peter Whoriskey, "We called it Hurricane FEMA" in The Washington Post , March 12, 2007, p. A01 (accessed 2009 April 24).
  8. Letters to the editor of The Daily Star. See also Orbis Quintus.

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