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The newspaper was the world's last to print both daily morning and afternoon editions, a practice it ended in March 2016. [3]The World-Herald was the largest employee-owned newspaper in the United States from 1979 until 2011: Omaha construction magnate Peter Kiewit bought the newspaper and its television station, the local ABC affiliate, in 1962 for $40.1 million from Omaha-based World ...
Weekly and semi-weekly newspapers. Ainsworth Star-Journal – Ainsworth. Albion News – Albion. Alliance Times-Herald – Alliance. Antelope County News /Orchard News – Neligh. Harlan County Journal – Alma. Ashland Gazette – Ashland. Nemaha County Herald – Auburn. Aurora News-Register – Aurora.
The Ram, Fordham University student newspaper (roughly 1918–2008) Free. The Polytechnic (1869, 1885–2001) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute student newspaper Free. The Spectrum (1950–1962), State University of New York at Buffalo Free. The Record (1913–2006), State University of New York College at Buffalo Free.
4,365 (2022) Website. lee.net. Footnotes / references. [1] Lee Enterprises, Inc. is a publicly traded American media company. It publishes 77 daily newspapers in 26 states, [2] and more than 350 weekly, classified, and specialty publications. [3] Lee Enterprises was founded in 1890 by Alfred Wilson Lee [2] and is based in Davenport, Iowa.
Henry Doorly. Henry Doorly (November 9, 1879 – June 21, 1961) was the chairman of the World Publishing Company and publisher of the Omaha World-Herald in Nebraska, founded by his father-in-law, U.S. Senator Gilbert Hitchcock. Doorly worked for the company for 58 years, [1] and became a highly influential figure in the city.
The African American community in Omaha has had several newspapers serve it. The first was the Progress, established in 1889 by Ferdinand L. Barnett. Cyrus D. Bell, an ex-slave, established the Afro-American Sentinel in 1892. In 1893 George F. Franklin started publishing the Enterprise, later published by Thomas P. Mahammitt.
1863 Brownell Hall is founded at the location of present-day North 24th and Grand Streets. 1863 The Storz Brewery is founded in Saratoga along North 16th Street. 1866 The Omaha Police Department was organized. 1867 Act of the Legislature locating the State Institute for the Deaf and Dumb at Omaha approved the governor.
The city's premier newspapers, the Omaha Bee and the Omaha World-Herald, were founded in 1874 and 1885, respectively. Omaha was the location of the 1892 convention that formed the Populist Party, with its aptly titled Omaha Platform written by "radical farmers" from throughout the Midwest.