The Daily News (Longview, Washington)

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The Daily News
The Daily News (Longview) front page.gif
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Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Lee Enterprises
Founder(s) Robert A. Long
General managerMatt Sandberg
FoundedJanuary 26, 1923 (1923-01-26) [1]
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters770 11th Avenue
Longview, Washington 98632
CountryUnited States
Circulation 9,141 Daily(as of 2023) [2]
ISSN 0889-0005
OCLC number 13781223
Website tdn.com

The Daily News is a newspaper covering Longview, Kelso, Washington, and Cowlitz County, Washington in the United States. Apart from a brief period in the 1990s when, prior to ceasing publication, the Cowlitz County Advocate was published in Longview, the Daily News has been Longview's only newspaper since its inception. [3]

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History

Robert A. Long, a lumber magnate, foundered both Longview and The Daily News as a Long-Bell Lumber Company daily in 1923.

According to "R.A. Long's Planned City" by John McClelland Jr., McClelland Sr. purchased the paper from Long.

Ted Natt and John Natt, grandsons of John M. McClelland Sr., sold the newspaper to Howard Publications in 1999, ending 76 years of McClelland-Natt family ownership. Lee Enterprises acquired the newspaper in 2002.

Starting June 27, 2023, the print edition of the newspaper will be reduced to three days a week: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Also, the newspaper will transition from being delivered by a traditional newspaper delivery carrier to mail delivery by the U.S. Postal Service. [4]

Pulitzer Prize

The Daily News covered the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Local, General, or Spot Reporting, [5] as well as the 1981 national Sigma Delta Chi Award.[ citation needed ] The Pulitzer committee specifically mentioned the photography of Roger A. Werth. A book written by the newspaper staff on the eruption became a New York Times bestseller.[ citation needed ] Following the death of the paper's publisher in a helicopter crash, the Associated Press established the regional Ted Natt Award for First Amendment journalism.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. LCCN   sn86001613
  2. Lee Enterprises. "Form 10-K". investors.lee.net. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  3. Bagwell, Steve; Stapilus, Randy (2013). New Editions: The Northwest's newspapers as they were, are, and will be. Carlton, Oregon: Ridenbaugh Press. p. 226. ISBN   978-0-945648-10-9. OCLC   861618089.
  4. Rosenberg, Penny (2023-05-28). "Your expanded The Daily News coming soon". Longview Daily News. Retrieved 2023-07-19.
  5. https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-16 [ bare URL ]