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The Virginian-Pilot and its sister afternoon edition, the Ledger-Star (which ceased publication in 1995) were created by Samuel L. Slover as the result of several mergers of papers dating back to 1865. [10] The Virginian-Pilot covered the Wright brothers' early flights. [11] Slover's nephew Frank Batten Sr. became publisher at age 27 in 1954.
Previously, in quick succession in her late 20s and early 30s, she was a reporter, section editor, city editor, assistant managing editor and then managing editor of The Ledger-Star. In 1982, The Ledger-Star merged newsrooms with its sister newspaper, The Virginian-Pilot, and Rowe was named one of two managing editors of the combined newspaper ...
Hopewell News: Hopewell: 1926 2018 Began as City and Tri-County News: King George Journal Press: King George: 2017 Ledger-Star: Norfolk 1876 [14] 1995 [20] Began as Public Ledger, became Ledger-Star in 1962 News & Messenger: Manassas: Northern Virginia Sun: Arlington: 1998 Port Folio Weekly: Norfolk: 1983 2009 Religious Herald: Richmond: 1828 ...
The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press filed Freedom of Information Act requests with the school systems of Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Hampton and Newport News for complaints or ...
Batten assumed leadership in 1954 of two newspapers, The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star in Norfolk, Virginia, parlaying those papers into a media conglomerate by acquiring other newspapers, radio stations, and television stations and establishing a cable outlet as well as the national cable weather channel.
Rekaya Gibson, The Virginian-Pilot. May 6, 2022 at 8:15 AM. The Food Dude, John Walters, happened to describe me perfectly: “The only thing I like better than talking about food is eating ...
They included papers which would eventually become today's Virginian-Pilot. Frank Batten , Slover's nephew, took over the company in 1955, and changed its name to Norfolk-Portsmouth Newspapers Inc. in 1957 (reflecting the merger of the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch and Portsmouth Star ), then to Landmark Communications in 1967. [ 4 ]
The board extended the voting deadline by 30 minutes at Wilson County's Gardners Elementary School and the Pilot Mountain polling place in Burke County. These locations will now close at 8 p.m.