The ''Washington Daily News'' is an American, English language daily newspaper headquartered in and serving

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and Beaufort County, North Carolina. It was established in 1909. The paper also uses Facebook for sharing news and interacting with readers. The paper won the

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for a series of articles that showed the city's water was contaminated and had been for eight years. The newspaper was then family-owned. It had a circulation of 8,644 Monday through Saturday and 8,829 on Sunday as of Sept. 30, 2019. The newspaper was owned and published by the Futrell family from 1949 until 2010. On June 16, 2010, the Futrell family announced the sale of the ''Washington Daily News'' to Washington Newsmedia LLC, a new company affiliated Boone Newspapers, Inc. of

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. Boone Newspapers also owns the '' Tryon Daily Bulletin'', '' The Stanley News and Press'', the '' Salisbury Post'', ''

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