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The Bluefield Daily Telegraph is a newspaper based in Bluefield, West Virginia, [2] [3] and also covering surrounding communities in McDowell, Mercer and Monroe counties, West Virginia; and Bland, Buchanan, Giles and Tazewell counties, Virginia (including the town of Bluefield, Virginia). It publishes online Monday through Saturday.
Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Newspapers", West Virginia: A Guide to the Mountain State, American Guide Series, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 112+, ISBN 9781603540476 – via Google Books; Otis K. Rice (July 1953). "West Virginia Printers and their Work, 1790-1830". West Virginia History. West Virginia Historical Society. ISSN 0043 ...
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This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in the state of West Virginia. The first such newspaper was The Pioneer Press of Martinsburg, started by J.R. Clifford in 1882. [1] West Virginia's last African American newspaper, the West Virginia Beacon Digest of Charleston, shut down in 2006. [2]
The Williamson Daily News is a newspaper in Williamson, West Virginia. It was founded in 1912 and is the successor to a previous weekly effort, The Southern West Virginian , founded in 1900. As of July 3, 2019, the paper publishes as a weekly on Wednesdays.
While claiming antecedents dating back to 1845, [5] the Examiner itself was founded in 1874 by Samuel D. Gordon. [1] It quickly became the leading democratic newspaper in the South Branch Valley, and was in those early years the only newspaper published in Hardy county.
The News was founded in 1898 as a weekly, and taken over by W. A. Meredith in 1902. [3] In 1909, R.C. Walker came on as editor and manager, with Meredith retaining control. [ 4 ] Two other generations of Merediths owned and operated the paper before 1980, when the business was sold to James Jackson and Boyd Dotson.
The oldest of the two papers, the Reporter, was founded as the Weekly Bulletin in 1881. [2] It became the Roane County Reporter in 1915, [3] under the editorship of S. Jack. [4] Shortly after this change, the paper, a Democratic weekly, engaged in a controversy with the Times-Record in the editorial pages over a preacher named Wood, who had become involved in a political matter. [5]