Record Delta

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Record Delta
TypeSemi-daily
Owner(s) News Media Corporation
Founded1876
Headquarters2B Clarksburg Rd Buckhannon WV 26201
Circulation 3,475(as of 2016) [1]
Website therecorddelta.com

The Record Delta is a newspaper serving Buckhannon, West Virginia, and surrounding Upshur County. [2] Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, it has a circulation of 3,475 and is owned by News Media Corporation. [3]

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History

The Record Delta is the merger of the Buckhannon Record and the Republican Delta. The Buckhannon Record was founded in 1876. [4] In the 1910s it had the distinction of being an early West Virginia newspaper to be helmed by a female editor, Minnie Kendall Lowther. [5] Commenting on the paper's leadership in 1918. the Exponent Telegram stated: "The Buckhannon Record, edited by a woman, is.one of the best of northern West Virginia weeklies and it is high time that women were taking more active part in newspaperdom generally throughout West Virginia." [6]

In March 1977, the Buckhannon Record combined with the Republican Delta to form the Record Delta. [7]

In both 2016 and 2017, the paper won the West Virginia Press Association's General Excellence Award in Division IV (under 4,000 circulation). [8] [9]

It has been sourced for reporting by the Charleston Gazette-Mail as recently as April 2018, [10] and is considered a paper of public record by the State of West Virginia. [11]

On August 14, 2018, News Media Corporation announced that James Austin would take over as the publisher of The Record Delta, Mountain Statesman, The  Weston Democrat. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ 2016 West Virginia Press Association Newspaper Directory (PDF). West Virginia Press Association. 2016.
  2. ↑ "Newspapers Currently Received in the West Virginia Archives and History Library" (PDF). West Virginia Division of Culture and History. State of West Virginia. December 2016.
  3. ↑ 2016 West Virginia Press Association Newspaper Directory (PDF). West Virginia Press Association. 2016.
  4. ↑ "About Buckhannon banner". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  5. ↑ "Woman Editor On De Berriz Incident". The Fairmont West Virginian. 10 August 1920. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  6. ↑ "Woman Editors". The Fairmont West Virginian. 9 September 1918.
  7. ↑ "Newspapers on Microfilm". West Virginia Department of Culture and History. State of West Virginia.
  8. ↑ "Four newspapers earn West Virginia Press Association top editorial honors". West Virginia Press. West Virginia Press Association. 7 August 2017.
  9. ↑ "Glenville's Corcoran wins top honor; Four newspapers top General Excellence". West Virginia Press. West Virginia Press Association. 6 August 2016.
  10. ↑ "Decades after previous killing, Upshur man faces new murder charge". Charleston Gazette-Mail.
  11. ↑ "2018-2019 Newspapers" (PDF). West Virginia Secretary of State. State of West Virginia.
  12. ↑ "The Record Delta announces new publisher". The Record Delta. 14 August 2018.


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