| "Trusted, Tested, Timeless" | |
.jpg) The Norman Transcript building | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. |
| Publisher | Katherine Miller |
| Editor | Ben Fenwick |
| Founded | July 13, 1889 |
| Headquarters | 215 East Comanche Street Norman, Oklahoma 73069  United States |
| Circulation | 13,825 Daily 14,036 Sunday (as of 2006)[1] |
| Website | normantranscript.com |
The Norman Transcript is adaily newspaper published inNorman, Oklahoma, United States, coveringCleveland andMcClain counties, in the southern suburbs ofOklahoma City. It is owned byCommunity Newspaper Holdings Inc.
The newspaper is the oldest business in Norman. It was founded by settler Edward Philip Ingle on July 13, 1889.
The newspaper's marketing slogan is "Trusted, Tested, Timeless.”
The newspaper was founded by settler Edward Philip Ingle on July 13, 1889, shortly after the first OklahomaLand Run of April 22, 1889. Ingle had previously owned and operated the Purcell Register newspaper from 1887 to 1889, across the South Canadian River in the then-Chickasaw Nation.
The first edition described Ingle's hopes for the newspaper, that "It will ever be a champion of the people and will be found ready to investigate both sides of any question of importance for the welfare of the people." The first two issues of the Transcript were published in July 1889, with a hiatus until later in the autumn.The Norman Transcript has been published regularly since then.
Theweekly newspaper was sold to J.J. Burke in 1903. Burke established a companionfree daily newspaper in 1912, later merging the two editions into a paid daily in 1917. Fred E. Tarman joined The Transcript in 1922 as editor and remained in that position until his retirement in 1969. Harold R. Belknap became editor and publisher at that time, and his heirs sold it to the paper's first chain owner,Donrey Media Group, in 1985; CNHI boughtThe Transcript from Donrey in 1998.[2]
James M. Flinchum worked atThe Transcript in the late 1930s before joiningUnited Press and later as editor-in-chief of theWyoming State Tribune, forerunner of theWyoming Tribune Eagle inCheyenne,Wyoming.[3]
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