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The Daily News
A sample front page of The Daily News
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Lee Enterprises
Founder(s)Robert A. Long
General managerMatt Sandberg
FoundedJanuary 27, 1923 (1923-01-27)[1]
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters770 11th Avenue
Longview, Washington 98632
CountryUnited States
Circulation9,141 Daily (as of 2023)[2]
ISSN0889-0005
OCLC number13781223
Websitetdn.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]

History

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Ralph Tennal published the first issue of The Longview News on Jan. 27, 1923. The paper was financed by Robert A. Long, a lumber magnate who was president of Long-Bell Lumber Company and founded the city of Longview. Tennal quit after a few months and Long hired John Morgan McClelland Sr. to replace him as the paper's editor. On April 2, 1923, The Longview News began publishing daily and was renamed to The Longview Daily News, and then The Daily News. McClelland partnered with Long to create the Longview Publishing Company and purchase the newspaper from the Long-Bell Lumber Company in 1925.[4]

McClelland Sr. retired in 1955 and turned over operations to his son John McClelland Jr.[5] Ted Natt and John Natt, grandsons of McClelland Sr., sold the newspaper to Howard Publications in 1999, ending 76 years of McClelland-Natt family ownership.[6] Lee Enterprises acquired the newspaper in 2002.[7]

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.[8]

Pulitzer Prize

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The Daily News covered the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Local, General, or Spot Reporting,[9] as well as the 1981 national Sigma Delta Chi Award.[10] 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 in 1999.[11]

References

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  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. ^ McClary, Daryl C. (July 1, 2008). "The Longview News begins publishing on January 27, 1923". HistoryLink. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
  5. ^ "John M. McClelland | Newspaper, community leader dead at 95". Longview Daily News. February 6, 1981. p. 1.
  6. ^ "Final papers signed for purchase of Daily News and weekly newspapers". The Cowlitz County Advocate. June 9, 1999. p. 1.
  7. ^ "Longview newspaper gets new owner as publishing company buys chain". The Columbian. Associated Press. February 13, 2002. p. 38.
  8. ^ Rosenberg, Penny (2023-05-28). "Your expanded The Daily News coming soon". Longview Daily News. Retrieved 2023-07-19.
  9. ^ "Longview paper wins Pulitzer for Mount St. Helens coverage". The Everett Herald. Associated Press. April 14, 1981. p. 1.
  10. ^ "'Daily News' peak stories win top award". Longview Daily News. March 31, 1981. p. 1.
  11. ^ "Associated Press to give Ted Natt award". Longview Daily News. November 12, 1999. p. 3.
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