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25-535: On May 17, 1995 the News & Observer Publishing Company was sold to McClatchy Newspapers of Sacramento , California , for $ 373 million, ending 101 years of Daniels family ownership. In the mid-1990s, flexo machines were installed, allowing the paper to print thirty-two pages in color, which was the largest capacity of any newspaper within the United States at the time. The McClatchy Company currently operates

50-436: A 16-page special report on the events of 1898. Daniels continued to run the paper until his death in the mid-1940s. After his death his four sons assumed management of the company. All four sons contributed to the operation of the paper, but Jonathan Daniels , editor from 1933 to 1941 and from 1948 until 1964, kept the paper in the direction of appealing for school desegregation and a reduction in race related discrimination. It

75-618: A distancing from Democratic partisanship. Throughout the early 1990s, The News & Observer divested itself of various local newspapers in South Carolina and the North Carolina mountains, and by September 1993, Sunday sales of The News & Observer reached 200,000 for every week. However, the newspaper still owns The Cary News , Chapel Hill News , and the Smithfield Herald among other newspapers. In 1994,

100-533: A little over ten years after the paper was first founded. The owners of the newly founded Raleigh Observer , Peter M. Hale and William L. Saunders , bought the now-bankrupt paper, ending its publication and focusing on the Raleigh Observer . After about ten years the paper ran out of money, so the two owners sold to the owner of the Raleigh News , Samuel A. Ashe. Ashe combined the two papers under

125-535: A portion of the redeveloped facility. By June 2021, the paper only employed 64 reporters. Claude Sitton was awarded for his distinguished commentary. Michael Skube was awarded for his writing about books and other literary topics. In the Winter of 1995 The News & Observer released a nine part series on the booming pork industry in North Carolina . The series covered environmental and health risk of

150-790: A single bi-weekly paper titled Triangle Today , however that paper was discontinued in January, 2019. The News & Observer Publishing Co. owns Insider State Government News Service, a newsletter publisher about state government. The McClatchy Company Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 221968024 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:31:51 GMT Jonathan W. Daniels Jonathan Worth Daniels (April 26, 1902 – November 6, 1981)

175-480: A total of twenty-nine daily newspapers in fourteen states with a combined weekday circulation of 1.6 million and a Sunday circulation of 2.4 million. With McClatchy's acquisition of most of Knight Ridder 's properties in 2006, North Carolina's two largest newspapers (the News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer ) are now under common ownership. The News & Observer traces its roots to The Sentinel, which

200-422: A welder's torch started a fire and burned through newsprint threaded through the press, injuring three and causing millions in damage. In 1987, the staffs of The News & Observer and The Raleigh Times merged, and on November 30, 1989, the last edition of The Raleigh Times was published. In 1988, The News & Observer endorsed its first Republican candidate for statewide election, showing, perhaps,

225-671: The Carolina Playmakers . Daniels passed the North Carolina bar exam despite failing out of Columbia University Law School , but never practiced law. After World War II began, Daniels went into government service, first as assistant director of the Office of Civilian Defense and later as one of six administrative assistants for President Franklin D. Roosevelt (who had worked under Josephus Daniels during World War I). In March 1945, less than one month before his death, Roosevelt named Daniels his press secretary, and he continued in

250-597: The Raleigh–Durham International Airport for preventing the company from adding new newspaper racks in the terminal. After appeal, a 2010 decision from the Fourth Circuit determined that the restriction was a violation of the first amendment because it put a restriction on expression. In September 2008, the News and Observer offered buyouts to all 320 newsroom employees, approximately 40% of its staff, in an effort to cut expenses. Previously

275-667: The Wilmington insurrection of 1898 , According to historian Helen Edmonds , the paper "led in a campaign of prejudice, bitterness, vilification, misrepresentation, and exaggeration to influence the emotions of the whites against the Negro." The result was the only successful coup d'état in American history, the overthrow of Wilmington's elected government by force. In 1900, he used the paper to support soon-to-be Governor Charles B. Aycock , another white supremacist, during his bid for

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300-459: The Daniels family hired Claude Sitton , who had been a correspondent for The New York Times and later an editor there. Serving as the editorial director of the paper, he promoted The News & Observer as a government watchdog and moved the news of the paper away from the personal and partisan stances it had taken under Josephus Daniels . However, its editorials were still often aligned with

325-653: The Democratic Party. A year later, the Mini Page children's supplement was created and published. Today, it is one of America's most widely used children's newspaper supplements. In 1971, Sitton became the editor and the paper began buying and publishing smaller local newspapers, starting with The Island Packet in Hilton Head, South Carolina and The Cary News in Cary, North Carolina . On March 16, 1980,

350-715: The Navy in 1913, the family moved to Washington, D.C., where he studied at the John Eaton School from 1913 to 1915, and St. Albans School from 1915 to 1918. Daniels attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , and graduated in 1921 with a B.A. He continued at UNC for graduate school, earning an M.A. in English in 1921. As a student in Chapel Hill, he edited The Daily Tar Heel and participated in

375-473: The company had shut down its Durham news bureau and in a separate event laid off 70 employees. Layoffs and buyouts have continued since then. In 2015 the newspaper announced it would sell its facility in downtown Raleigh for redevelopment, which will entail demolition of much of the facility. New presses will be installed at the newspaper's auxiliary production facility in Garner . Editorial offices will remain in

400-432: The fourth time in its history. In 1894 the paper was sold at auction, this time to a Washington, North Carolina , native who was a strong Democratic supporter. Josephus Daniels , with help from Julian Carr and other friends, bought the paper. Quickly Daniels refocused the News and Observer to combat rampant corruption and other problems he saw within the state. Put differently by Daniels himself, "The News and Observer

425-657: The new banner The News & Observer in September 1880, making it the sole daily paper in Raleigh . Ashe ran the company personally until 1894, focusing on politics and the Democratic party . Ashe used connections within the Democratic Party to get an upper leg on upcoming stories. This model worked well for the paper until Ashe lost favor in the Democratic caucus , leading the paper to fall on hard financial times for

450-437: The office. He also used the paper to advocate female suffrage , workers' compensation , state industrialization, better roads and crop rotation . In 2006, on occasion of the release of the report of the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot Commission, the newspaper offered "an apology for the acts of someone [Daniels] we continue to salute in a different context…and for the misdeeds of the paper as an institution." The newspaper published

475-625: The paper created Nando .net, becoming an Internet service provider and began publishing the NandO Times online newspaper. In 1999, The News & Observer was named one of America's 100 best newspapers by the Columbia Journalism Review , and one of the 17 best-designed newspapers in the world by the Society for News Design . In 2004, The News & Observer along with three other news publishers filled suit against

500-413: The position temporarily under President Harry S. Truman . Daniels' 47-day term serving as White House Press Secretary was the shortest of any White House Press Secretary until that of Jerald terHorst , who was Gerald Ford 's first Press Secretary for 31 days. Daniels returned to The News & Observer in 1947 and became its editor in 1948, upon the death of his father. In 1966, he revealed

525-514: The waste disposal systems used within the pork industry in the state. The award was presented to the paper for the work done by Melanie Sill, Pat Stith and Joby Warrick . The News & Observer Publishing Co. formerly published a number of bi-weekly newspapers that focused on local news in various triangle-area communities. These included: In June, 2017 these papers were shifted in focus from local community news to entertainment, food, and light features, and in January, 2018 were consolidated into

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550-540: Was also under Jonathan's leadership that The News and Observer bought out the Raleigh Times and moved to a building on South McDowell St. in downtown Raleigh , where they stayed until the building was sold in 2015. On September 3, 1934, The News and Observer began a column about state politics called "Under the Dome", which started on the back page, moved to the front and now runs in the local section. In 1968,

575-599: Was an American writer, editor, and White House Press Secretary . He was a founding member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors, serving from 1940 until 1950. For most of his life, he worked at The News & Observer , and later founded The Island Packet . Jonathan Worth Daniels was the son of Josephus Daniels and Addie Worth Bagley Daniels . He attended Centennial School in Raleigh from 1908 to 1913. When his father became United States Secretary of

600-662: Was founded by the Rev. William E. Pell in 1865 and who used, "the newspaper to fight against the domination of carpetbaggers and other forces during Congressional Reconstruction ." The paper's struggles to stay relevant and make money led to new ownership in 1868. With the new owner The Sentinel began to cover the Democrats ' push to retake the North Carolina Legislature , along with the impeachment of Gov. William W. Holden in 1871. The Sentinel went bankrupt

625-493: Was relied upon to carry the Democratic message and to be the militant voice of White Supremacy , and it did not fail in what was expected, sometimes going to extremes in its partisanship." Daniels believed that "the greatest folly and crime" in U.S. history was granting Blacks the right to vote. In the findings of the Wilmington Race Riot Commission, Daniels is the only name mentioned as a cause of

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