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The John Gottschalk Freedom Center is a newspaper production facility located at 14th Street and Capitol Avenue in Downtown Omaha, Nebraska. Built for the Omaha World-Herald, the building is considered to be one of the most automated and technologically advanced newspaper facilities in the world. [1] [2] [3] The Freedom Center has been labeled ...
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 ...
The Board of Education in Omaha has operated a variety of schools since the city's founding in 1854. The first school in Omaha, a one-room schoolhouse, was opened on the southwest corner of Jefferson Square. After a brief closure in 1861, Omaha Public Schools formed again in 1863, and has operated continuously since. [ 5]
Omaha's tallest building is the 634 feet (193 m), 45-story First National Bank Tower. Completed in 1969, the 478 feet (146 m), 30-story tall Woodmen Tower was the tallest [ 1] until the construction of the First National Bank Tower. While most of the city's tallest buildings are located in Downtown Omaha, several are located in Midtown Omaha.
CEO-publisher of the Omaha World-Herald. In office. 1989–2008. Personal details. Born. John Edmund Gottschalk. 1943. Omaha, Nebraska. John E. Gottschalk ( / ˈɡɒtʃɔːk / GOTCH-awk; born 1943) is the retired chief executive officer and publisher of the Omaha World-Herald and was the national president of the Boy Scouts of America from 2008 ...
The University of Nebraska Omaha ( UNO) is a public research university in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. [ 5] Founded in 1908 by faculty from the Omaha Presbyterian Theological Seminary as a private non-sectarian college, the university was originally known as the University of Omaha. [ 6][ 7] Originally meant to provide a Christian-based ...
The Omaha Platform was the party program adopted at the formative convention of ... People's Party Platform, Omaha Morning World-Herald, 5 July 1892. Kazin, Michael ...
Omaha, Nebraska. / 41.25861°N 95.93750°W / 41.25861; -95.93750. Omaha ( / ˈoʊməhɑː / OH-mə-hah) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. [ 6] It is located in the Midwestern United States along the Missouri River, about 10 mi (15 km) north of the mouth of the Platte River.