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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Lee Enterprises |
| Founder | Robert A. Long |
| General manager | Matt Sandberg |
| Founded | January 27, 1923 (1923-01-27)[1] |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 770 11th Avenue Longview,Washington 98632 |
| Country | United States |
| Circulation | 9,141 Daily (as of 2023)[2] |
| ISSN | 0889-0005 |
| OCLC number | 13781223 |
| Website | tdn |
The Daily News is a newspaper coveringLongview,Kelso, Washington, andCowlitz County, Washington in the United States. Apart from a brief period in the 1990s when, prior to ceasing publication, theCowlitz County Advocate was published in Longview, theDaily News has been Longview's only newspaper since its inception.[3]
Ralph Tennal published the first issue ofThe Longview News on Jan. 27, 1923. The paper was financed byRobert A. Long, a lumber magnate who was president ofLong-Bell Lumber Company and founded the city of Longview. Tennal quit after a few months and Long hired John Morgan McClelland Sr. to replace him as the paper's editor. On April 2, 1923,The Longview News began publishing daily and was renamed toThe Longview Daily News, and thenThe Daily News. McClelland partnered with Long to create the Longview Publishing Company and purchase the newspaper from the Long-Bell Lumber Company in 1925.[4]
McClelland Sr. retired in 1955 and turned over operations to his son John McClelland Jr.[5]Ted Natt and John Natt, grandsons of McClelland Sr., sold the newspaper toHoward Publications in 1999, ending 76 years of McClelland-Natt family ownership.[6]Lee Enterprises acquired the newspaper in 2002.[7]
Starting June 27, 2023, the print edition of the newspaper will be reduced to three days a week: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Also, the newspaper will transition from being delivered by a traditional newspaper delivery carrier to mail delivery by the U.S. Postal Service.[8]
TheDaily News covered the eruption ofMount St. Helens in 1980, and won the1981 Pulitzer Prize forLocal, General, or Spot Reporting,[9] as well as the 1981 nationalSigma Delta Chi Award.[10] Following the death of the paper's publisher in a helicopter crash, theAssociated Press established the regionalTed Natt Award for First Amendment journalism in 1999.[11]
