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The Buffalo News
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Berkshire Hathaway
PublisherWarren T. Colville
EditorMike Connelly[1]
Founded1880 as the Buffalo Evening News
Headquarters1 News Plaza
Buffalo, New York 14203
United States
Circulation138,895 Daily
204,504 Sunday[2]
ISSN0745-2691
Websitewww.buffalonews.com

The Buffalo News is the daily newspaper of the Buffalo – Niagara Falls metropolitan area. Located at 1 News Plaza in Downtown Buffalo, the paper is owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. It was for decades the only newspaper fully owned by that company.[3]

History

Buffalo Evening News paper boy's 1910

The News was founded in 1873 by Edward Hubert Butler, Sr. as a Sunday paper.[4] In 1880, it began publishing daily editions as well, and in 1914, it became an inversion of its original existence by publishing Monday to Saturday, with no publication on Sunday. During most of its life, the News was known as The Buffalo Evening News. A gentleman's agreement between the Evening News and the Buffalo Courier-Express meant that the Evening News would be evening-only, and the Courier-Express would be morning-only. Until 1977, the News did not publish on Sundays because of the agreement, and its weekend edition appeared on Saturday evening.

In 1977, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway purchased the Evening News[3] and began publishing on Saturday and Sunday mornings.[4] After a period of financial decline, the Courier-Express published its last issue on September 19, 1982. The Evening News then shortened its name to The Buffalo News and published morning and evening editions.

On October 1, 2006, the News announced it would abandon its evening edition later that month.

Buffalo News building

Today, The Buffalo News publishes three morning editions (Western New York, Final and Niagara) and appears online at BuffaloNews.com, reaching over 400,000 readers, across eight counties each day.

The News Designated Market Area had the largest adult population in Upstate New York. Counties in total circulation area: New York - Allegheny, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chemung, Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Ontario, Steuben, Wyoming; Pennsylvania - Cameron, Erie, McKean, Potter, Warren.[citation needed]

The newspaper founded and owned the WBEN television and radio stations, which are now WIVB (Channel 4), WBEN (930), WYRK (106.5) and WTSS (102.5), respectively. The radio stations are now owned by separate companies (WBEN and WTSS are now held by Entercom; WYRK by Townsquare Media), but in 2014, WIVB came back under partial coownership, with the News when Buffett's Media General merged with the WIVB parent company, LIN Media.

Pulitzer Prizes

File:Buffalo Evening News 7-21-1969.jpg
Front page of the Buffalo Evening News dated July 21, 1969 featuring the Apollo 11 moon landing.
See also: List of Pulitzer Prizes awarded to The Buffalo News

Journalists for The Buffalo News and The Buffalo Evening News have won four Pulitzer Prizes:

  • In 1958, Bruce Shanks received the Editorial Cartooning award for his August 10, 1957 piece, "The Thinker", detailing union corruption.
  • In 1961, Edgar May received the Local Reporting award for his series, "Our Costly Dilemma," concerning the need for reform of New York State's welfare system. The series touched off debates about welfare reform nationwide.
  • In 1990, Tom Toles brought the News its second Editorial Cartooning award, for his work throughout the year (although his piece "First Amendment" has been cited as the work that merited the award). (Toles currently serves as an editorial cartoonist with The Washington Post, where he succeeded the late Herbert Block, known as Herblock.)
  • In 2015, Adam Zyglis won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning for using, in the committee's citation, "strong images to connect with readers while conveying layers of meaning in few words".

News journalists have been finalists for three other Pulitzer Prizes, but did not win:

  • Toles (1985 and 1996, for Editorial Cartooning) and,
  • James Heaney (1993, for Investigative Reporting).

Other journalists who won awards include Richard J. Burke a/k/a Dick Burke, who in 1972 won the New York State Associated Press Award for his series of articles about bicycling around Western New York.[citation needed]

Past publishers and editors

  • Edward H. Butler - Publisher, 1880 - 1914: founder
  • Edward H. Butler Jr. - Publisher, 1914 - 1956: son of Butler Sr
  • James H. Righter - Publisher, 1956 - 1971
  • Kate M. Robinson Butler - Publisher, 1971 - 1974: wife of Butler Jr
  • Henry Z. Urban - Publisher, 1974 - 1983
  • Stanford Lipsey - Publisher, 1983 - 2013
  • Alfred H. Kirchhofer - Editor, 1956 - 1966
  • Paul E. Neville - Editor, 1966 - 1969
  • Murray B. Light - Editor, 1979 - 1999
  • Margaret M. Sullivan - Editor, 1999 - 2012
  • Michael K. Connelly - Editor, 2012-present

Three members of the Butler family were publishers.

References

  1. ^ Gee, Denise Jewell (18 September 2012). "Sarasota editor named Buffalo News editor". The Buffalo News. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
  2. ^ "2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation" (PDF). BurrellesLuce. 2007-03-31. Retrieved 2007-05-29. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  3. ^ a b "EXCLUSIVE: Warren Buffett — Newspaper Industry Got Too Complacent". Editor & Publisher. December 14, 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-14.
  4. ^ a b Frequently Asked Questions, www.buffalonews.com
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