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Special interest newspapers in Washington, D.C. Title Year est., freq. Interest References Catholic Standard: 1951, weekly Catholics OCLC 11760218 [8] County News: 1973 County governments, National Association of Counties OCLC 1643384, LCCN sn82017007 [9] DC Black: African-American [10] [11] DC Spotlight Newspaper [11] The Georgetowner: 1954 ...
The Washington Star, previously known as the Washington Star-News and the Washington Evening Star, was a daily afternoon newspaper published in Washington, D.C., between 1852 and 1981. The Sunday edition was known as the Sunday Star. [1] The paper was renamed several times before becoming Washington Star by the late 1970s.
The newspaper was founded in 1892 by Civil War veteran Sgt. John H. Murphy, Sr. Murphy merged his church publication, The Sunday School Helper, with two other church publications, The Ledger and The Afro-American, and the publication rose to prominence under the control of his tenth-born child, Carl J. G. Murphy, who served as its editor for 45 years.
The Washington Post, locally known as The Post and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and has a national audience.
Although Washington was home to abolitionist papers prior to the American Civil War (1861-1865), the first known newspaper published by and for African Americans in the District of Columbia was the New Era, which Frederick Douglass launched in 1870.
The company previously owned a newspaper on Capitol Hill – Voice of the Hill – but ceased publication on May 5, 2010, citing declines in advertising revenue. [2] This announcement came around 9 months after the death of the paper's co-founder, Bruce Robey, who was found dead due to an apparent heart attack in September, 2009. [ 3 ]
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