Tyler Star News

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Tyler Star News
Type Weekly newspaper
Owner(s) Ogden Newspapers
EditorEd Parsons
Founded1877
Headquarters720 Wells Street, Sistersville, WV 26175
Circulation 2,735(as of 2016) [1]
Website tylerstarnews.com

The Tyler Star News is a newspaper serving Sistersville, West Virginia, and surrounding Tyler County. [2] Published weekly, it has a circulation of 2,735 and is owned by Ogden Newspapers. [3]

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History

The Star News is the result of the 1918 merger between the Tyler County News and the Tyler County Star. [4] The News dated back to 1909, [5] and the Star to 1877. [6]

The West Virginia Press Association's highest honor, the Adam R. Kelly Premier Journalist Award, is named after Adam Kelly, former editor and publisher of the Star News. [7] Kelly, a Logan County native who became editor of the paper in 1954, was recognized nationally for the quality of his editorial writing, and his Star News column "The Country Editor", was widely syndicated. [8] He became publisher of the paper in 1964, [8]

In 1979, Ogden Newspapers bought the paper. [9] Kelly became an editorial writer for Ogden Newspapers and a board member of the National Newspaper Association. [10] He died in 1990. [9]

In 2009 Jonay Corley was made editor of the Tyler Star News. Corley had previously been a reporter for The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register, and had joined the Star News as a staff writer the year before. [11]

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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 The Tyler star-news". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  5. ↑ "About The Tyler County news". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  6. ↑ "About Tyler County star". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  7. ↑ "Adam R. Kelly Premier Journalist Award and list of honorees". West Virginia Press. West Virginia Press Association.
  8. 1 2 "Kelly Plans WVU Visit". Beckley Post-Herald. 9 February 1975. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  9. 1 2 "Facts about the Tyler Star News". Tyler Star News.
  10. ↑ "Sentinel Names Robert Kelly new Brevard County Editor". The Orlando Sentinel. 22 December 1985. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  11. ↑ "Jonay Corley Named Tyler Star News Editor". Editor & Publisher. 18 June 2009.
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