Charleston Daily Mail
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
|
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | The Daily Gazette Company |
| Publisher | Nanya Friend |
| Editor | Nanya Friend |
| Founded | 1914 |
| Headquarters | Charleston, W.Va. |
| Website | Charleston Daily Mail |
The Charleston Daily Mail is a Pulitzer Prize winning morning newspaper in Charleston, West Virginia. It historically featured a conservative viewpoint and described itself as an "independent Republican" newspaper.
The Daily Mail was founded in 1914 by former Alaska Gov. Walter Clark and remained the property of his heirs until 1987, when Thomson Newspapers purchased it. In 1998, Thomson sold the Daily Mail to the Denver-based MediaNews Group. The newspaper was in a Joint Operating Agreement with the owner of the morning paper, the Charleston Gazette from 1961 until 2004. Prior to the agreement, the paper was published Monday-Saturday afternoons and on Sunday mornings. Under the agreement, it published in the afternoons, Monday-Saturday, with subscribers receiving the Sunday Gazette-Mail, which was produced by the Gazette and reflected its style and viewpoints.
In May 2004, MediaNews sold the paper to the Daily Gazette Company, the owners of the morning newspaper. The new owners reduced the staff and canceled its Saturday edition, publishing Monday-Friday afternoons from 2004-2009.
In January 2009, the paper was switched to a morning publication, and the second shift of printing and distribution workers were offered positions on the new shift. On weekend mornings the Gazette staff publishes the combined Saturday Gazette-Mail and Sunday Gazette-Mail. Saturday's paper features two editorial pages, one from the Gazette editors and one from the Daily Mail editors, and comics pages from both newspapers. Sunday's paper features a Perspective section with various editorial viewpoints.
The purchase is being reviewed by the Department of Justice for violations of the antitrust act. The DOJ is asking that the Daily Gazette Company be forced to sell the newspaper and resume the former JOA
The Charleston Daily Mail sponsors the Daily Mail Kanawha County Majorette and Band Festival held at the University of Charleston Stadium at Laidley Field at the end of September of each year.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Motto
The newspaper's motto, as chosen by Gov. Clark, is "Without, or With, Offence to Friends or Foes, I Sketch Your World Exactly as It Goes." The paper features an "everyman" cartoon character, Charley West (or occasionally his wife, Virginia "Ginny" West, or their dog, Cap West) who has a one-line comment on the news of the day on its front page.
