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When Peacock died in 1895, the newspaper was purchased by businessman William L. McLean. [2] At the time, the last-place Bulletin sold for 2 cents an issue, equal to $0.73 today. McLean cut the price in half and increased coverage of local news. By 1905, the paper was the city's largest. [citation needed]
The News Section, displaying a dramatic page-one headline, "Atomic Energy Provides Man Tool of Death or Good Life," followed with a variety of human-interest stories, a coverage of "1949 in Review," a "Stranger Than Fiction" column and a page of international news. More than a few photos focused on unusual highway accidents. [7]
Front page of the Lancaster Today newspaper, December 11, 2008. Today Newspapers served a total of six communities at one time or the other. Each paper was independent and published weekly in the interest of its city. On Thursday, March 19, 2009, the Cedar Hill, DeSoto, Duncanville, and Lancaster Today papers were merged into a single edition. [4]
The New England Courant, the 7 August 1721 front page. It was James Franklin (1697–1735), Benjamin Franklin's older brother, who first made a news sheet something more than a garbled mass of stale items, "taken from the Gazette and other Public Prints of London" some six months late.
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7 + 1 ⁄ 2 Cents is a 1953 novel by Richard Bissell, his third book and second novel. It was a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. It was a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] With George Abbott , Bissell adapted it into the musical The Pajama Game , which was a hit on Broadway and won the 1955 Tony Award for Best Musical.
The 1978 New York City newspaper strike ran from August 10 to November 5, 1978, a total of 88 days. [1] It affected the New York City newspaper industry , shutting down all three of the city's major newspapers: The New York Times , New York Daily News , and the New York Post .