By then circulation of the Daily Press had reached 6,100. Bottom, was elected president of the Daily Press and business manager of the publishing company in 1931. Ownership changed again in 1930 when William E. The two papers thereafter shared the same presses and production staffs, but their news staffs remained separate and often fiercely competitive. Three years later they in turn purchased the rival Times-Herald. Thacker eventually sold the Daily Press to bankers Henry and George Schmelz. The publishers will endeavor, however, to make the best paper ever published on the Peninsula - a paper worthy of the growing city of Newport News.' Thacker especially promised 'to espouse the right and oppose the wrong wherever found.'īy 1910, the Daily Press had a circulation of 1,700-still, though, less than the afternoon daily, the Times-Herald, born of a merger between two papers. It is not expected that the Daily Press will be this rara avis of the journalistic world in this respect. The maiden issue's editorial column stated, 'A newspaper that pleases all of its readers cannot be found this side of Utopia. Thacker edited the paper from a small print shop in the basement of the First National Bank. Thacker, soon established itself as the primary daily morning newspaper covering the Virginia Peninsula. The Daily Press, owned and edited by Charles E. His shipyard quickly grew into an economic goliath, with the fortunes of Newport News again following closely behind. Ten years later, Huntington built his first dry dock in Newport News. Huntington had declared the port particularly 'ideal for enterprise' and had extended the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway from Richmond to the Virginia Peninsula, thereby providing a new outlet for the export of West Virginia's vast resources of bituminous coal. Newport News had grown rapidly since 1880 when railroad magnate Collis P. Founded in Newport News in 1896 as a four-page penny newspaper, the Daily Press issued its first edition on January 4, less than two weeks before the General Assembly recognized the port town as a city.

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