Charleston Daily Mail
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Founded | 1914 |
| Ceased publication | 2015 |
The Charleston Daily Mail was a
Publishing history
The Daily Mail was founded in 1914 by former Alaska Governor
In 1987, the Clark heirs sold the paper to the Toronto-based
In May 2004, MediaNews sold the paper to the Daily Gazette Company, the owners of the morning newspaper. The new owner reduced the staff and canceled its Saturday edition, publishing Monday–Friday afternoons from 2004 to 2009. It also began to market the paper in an uncompetitive manner in an attempt to drive its circulation down to the point it could be closed. The
In January 2009, the paper was switched to a morning publication.[citation needed]
On January 20, 2010, the Daily Gazette Company and the Justice Department settled relative to violations in the purchase of the Daily Mail and the Daily Gazette Company's management of it. Under the announced terms of the settlement, the previous owner, the Media News Group, held a perpetual option to re-purchase 20% of the paper, had two of five seats on the management board, and determined the size of the budget for its news staff and choose its editorial content. The Daily Gazette was required to seek government permission to cease publication of the Daily Mail and the intellectual property of the paper passed to the Media News Group when it shut down. This intellectual property once included the
The newspaper was merged with the
Awards
The Daily Mail has won awards in many fields. J. D. Maurice, its editor of many years until his retirement in 1978, won the Sigma Delta Chi Award for editorial writing in 1958 and the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished editorial writing in 1975.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Sweney, Mark (January 27, 2014). "Mail Online to switch to .com domain name". The Guardian. Archived from the original on November 19, 2016. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
External links
- Charleston Daily Mail Archived July 11, 2015, at the Wayback Machine