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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 ...
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. Notable newspapers in Washington today include the Washington Afro-American and Washington Informer.
Newspaper dispensaries for some Washington-area papers. The Washington Post is the oldest-surviving and currently the most-read daily newspaper in Washington, with a strong reputation across the U.S. It is notable for exposing the Watergate scandal, among other achievements.
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.
Pages in category "Newspapers published in Washington, D.C." The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 ]
The newspaper's first editor and publisher was James R. Whelan. [11] The Washington Times was founded one year after The Washington Star, a Washington, D.C. daily newspaper, went out of business, leaving the city with The Washington Post as its only daily newspaper. A large percentage of the newspaper's news staff came from the Star.
Georgetown, originally part of the state of Maryland, was the first populated place in Washington, D.C. The first newspapers appeared in Georgetown, which became an independently municipal government within the District of Columbia, along with the City of Washington, the City of Alexandria (retroceeded to Virginia in 1846), [4] and the newly created County of Washington and County of ...