The Record Delta is a newspaper serving Buckhannon, West Virginia , and surrounding Upshur County. Published Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, it has a circulation of 3,475 and is owned by News Media Corporation .
8-598: The Record Delta is the merger of the Buckhannon Record and the Republican Delta. The Buckhannon Record was founded in 1876. In the 1910s it had the distinction of being an early West Virginia newspaper to be helmed by a female editor, Minnie Kendall Lowther. Commenting on the paper's leadership in 1918. the Exponent Telegram stated: "The Buckhannon Record, edited by a woman, is.one of
16-622: A combined Sunday edition), in 1927, Virgil Highland, one of the owners of The Telegram , was instrumental in the merger of the two under the Clarksburg Publishing Co. , also formed in 1927. The Telegram began as a Unionist Republican weekly The National Telegraph in 1861, founded by Robert Northcutt, but temporarily suspended after Northcott enlisted with the Union and was subsequently captured and held in Libby prison. After
24-514: Is a daily newspaper serving Clarksburg, West Virginia and the surrounding community. It has a daily print circulation of about 14,000, and a Sunday circulation of about 18,000. The Telegram was founded in 1861 as a weekly and went daily in 1902. The Exponent was founded as the News in 1910. It changed its name to The Exponent in 1920. The two papers came under common ownership and became daily morning and afternoon newspapers, respectively (with
32-660: The Charleston Gazette-Mail as recently as April 2018, and is considered a paper of public record by the State of West Virginia. On August 14, 2018, News Media Corporation announced that James Austin would take over as the publisher of The Record Delta , Mountain Statesman , The Weston Democrat. This article about a West Virginia newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . The Exponent-Telegram The Exponent Telegram
40-718: The "largest and best printed" papers in West Virginia. In 1891, a group of Clarksburg men purchased the Telegram from Northcott, and for over a decade helped grow the paper into one of the most prominent in central West Virginia. By 1902, the weekly Telegram 's success induced its owners to purchase the local Clarksburg Daily Post , which became the Clarksburg Daily Telegram . The Exponent launched in 1910. It advertised itself as receiving "five times more" telegraph news than competing papers. In 1927
48-652: The best of northern West Virginia weeklies and it is high time that women were taking more active part in newspaperdom generally throughout West Virginia." In March 1977, the Buckhannon Record combined with the Republican Delta to form the Record Delta . In both 2016 and 2017, the paper won the West Virginia Press Association's General Excellence Award in Division IV (under 4,000 circulation). It has been sourced for reporting by
56-615: The end of the Civil War, Northcott continued publishing, and was described by Rowell's directory as one of the more influential and reliable West Virginia weeklies, "zealously support[ing] the Grant administration" and protective tariffs. National Telegraph , as a Unionist and Republican vehicle during the Civil War. By 1891, the Wheeling Intelligencer noted the paper had recently invested in new machinery, becoming one of
64-688: The papers merged, publishing the Democratic Clarksburg Exponent in the mornings, the Clarksburg Telegram in the evenings, and a non-partisan paper, the Exponent Telegram, on Sundays, J. Cecil Jarvis, president of the company that publishes the Exponent Telegram died in 2007 as the result of a bicycle accident. In 2012, Brian Jarvis purchased The Exponent Telegram , retaining then current Telegram publisher Andy Kniceley. Under Jarvis's ownership,
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