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The Daily Star-Journal
The ''Warrensburg Star-Journal'' is a twice weekly newspaper in Johnson County, Missouri. History The paper traces its history to the ''Warrensburg Journal'', which began publishing April 17, 1865, by James Douglas Eads—seven days after the end of the American Civil War and two days after the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Warrensburg, population of 1,000 at the time, did not have a newspaper. Prior to the war, Eads, a church pastor, had published the ''Warrensburg Signal''. In addition to his pastor and newspaper interests he was also a physician and ran a hotel. On October 6, 1876, it became the ''Journal-Democrat'' after merging with the ''Warrensburg Democrat'', which had started in 1871. In 1907, Wallace Crossley became the publisher. On February 6, 1913, it became the ''Star-Journal'' after merging with the ''Johnson County Star'' founded in 1883 by J.M. Coe. William and Avis Tucker bought the paper in 1947. William Tucker died in 1966 and Avis owned the paper until 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weekly Newspaper
Weekly newspaper is a general-news or Current affairs (news format), current affairs publication that is issued once or twice a week in a wide variety broadsheet, magazine, and electronic publishing, digital formats. Similarly, a biweekly newspaper is published once every two weeks. Weekly newspapers tend to have smaller circulations than daily newspapers, and often cover smaller territories, such as one or more smaller towns, a rural county, or a few neighborhoods in a large city. Frequently, weeklies cover local news and engage in community journalism. Most weekly newspapers follow a similar format as daily newspapers (i.e., news, sports, obituary, obituaries, etc.). However, the primary focus is on news within a coverage area. The publication dates of weekly newspapers in North America vary, but often they come out in the middle of the week (Wednesday or Thursday). However, in the United Kingdom where they come out on Sundays, the weeklies which are called ''Sunday newspapers'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
News-Press & Gazette Company
The News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) is an American media company based in St. Joseph, Missouri, wholly owned and operated by the Bradley family. It is presided by Brian Bradley and David R. Bradley, with Hank Bradley (retired), Eric Bradley, and Kit Bradley serving on its board of directors. All are descendants of family patriarch Henry D. Bradley and his son, David Bradley Sr. News-Press & Gazette's properties include daily and weekly newspapers in Missouri and Kansas, radio and television stations in California, Idaho, Oregon, Colorado, Arizona, Missouri and Texas. The NPG group generally concentrates on the Kansas City and St. Joseph areas for their newspapers, and the western United States for their broadcasting properties. Many of News-Press & Gazette's television properties are top rated stations in their respective market. History The company traces it roots back to the '' St. Joseph Gazette'' which began publishing in 1845. The paper chronicled much of travel in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers Published In Missouri
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports, art, and science. They often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Kirkpatrick (politician)
James C. Kirkpatrick (June 15, 1905 – December 26, 1997) was an American politician from Missouri, United States. Early life He was born in Braymer, Missouri, graduated from Northeast High School in Kansas City, Missouri and Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg, Missouri. He was a member of Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity. He started his newspaper career at '' The Daily Star-Journal'' in Warrensburg and rose to be its editor. He went on to be editor of the '' Jefferson City News-Tribune''. He purchased weekly newspapers ''Windsor, Missouri Review'' and then the '' Lamar, Missouri Democrat''. Governor Forrest Smith asked him to write speeches for him. In 1960 he was defeated by Warren Hearnes in his first bid for Missouri Secretary of State. He won his first term in 1964. Career A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the Missouri Secretary of State from 1965 to 1985, establishing the current Missouri record for tenure of an elected state constitutional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Benton Hollyman
Thomas Benton Hollyman (December 7, 1919 – November 14, 2009) was an American photojournalist who created travel photographs for magazines and advertising campaigns. Graydon Carter, managing editor of '' Vanity Fair'', in his magazine's Editor's Letter, January 2005, titled "The Shots Seen Around the World", described Hollyman as a photographer whose "travels help form the patina of their characters and the grist for their tales." Hollyman also worked as the Director of Photography for the 1963 film ''Lord of the Flies'' Education and early career The son of a Presbyterian pastor, Hollyman was born in Denver, Colorado, on December 7, 1919. In 1919, the family moved to Warrensburg, Missouri, where his father became a church ic In the sixth grade, Hollyman published a school paper. Hollyman later said that he "always wanted to be journalist". When he was older, Hollyman did typesetting at the Standard Herald newspaper in Warrensburg in exchange for lessons in news-writin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 Pulitzer Prize
Below are the winners of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize by category. Journalism awards *Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, Public Service: **''Anchorage Daily News'', for reporting about the high incidence of alcoholism and suicide among Alaska Natives, native Alaskans in a series that focused attention on their despair and resulted in various reforms. *Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting, General News Reporting: ** Staff of ''The Courier-Journal, Louisville Courier-Journal'', for its exemplary initial coverage of a Carrollton, Kentucky bus collision, bus crash that claimed 27 lives and its subsequent thorough and effective examination of the causes and implications of the tragedy. *Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, Investigative Reporting: ** Bill Dedman of ''The Atlanta Journal-Constitution'', for his investigation of the racial discrimination practiced by lending institutions in Atlanta, reporting which led to significant reforms in those policies. *Pulitzer Prize for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Dedman
Bill Dedman is an American investigative reporter and author. He is best known for ''The Color of Money'', his 1988 investigation of redlining of middle-income black neighborhoods by banks and other mortgage lenders. Dedman received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for his articles in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Dedman is the co-author of the biography of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark and her family, '' Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune'', which was number one on ''The New York Times'' bestseller list and is being adapted into a television series for HBO. Often relying on public records more than insider accounts, Dedman has reported and written influential investigative articles on racial profiling by police, illegal steering of customers to different neighborhoods by real estate agents based on the race of the customers, police officers who tried to stop abusive interrogations of de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sedalia Democrat
The ''Sedalia Democrat'' is an American daily newspaper published in Sedalia, Missouri. It publishes a print edition five days a week, Tuesday through Saturday. History It was founded in 1868 as the ''Democratic Press'', a weekly newspaper. It became the ''Sedalia Democrat'' soon after. It began its daily edition, originally called the ''Daily Democrat'', December 19, 1871 until 1873. It was also published as the ''Sedalia Weekly Democrat'' from 1872 and the ''Sedalia Evening Democrat'' from 1891 until 1906. In 1906 it merged with the ''Sedalia Evening Sentinel'', a newspaper published from 1896 until 1906 and as the ''Sedalia Sentinel'' in 1906. The ''Sentinel'' published the infamous poem " Niggers in the White House." It was succeeded by the ''Sedalia Democrat-Sentinel'' published from 1907 until 1911. In 1912 it returned to being called the ''Sedalia Democrat'' and has continued under that title to the present. In 1995, it became part of the Freedom Communications chain; i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avis Tucker
Avis Green Tucker (July 30, 1915 – December 17, 2010) owned '' The Daily Star-Journal'' in Warrensburg, Missouri from 1947 to 2007. She was born Avis Green in Concordia, Kansas. When she was 18 months her parents moved to Pleasant Hill, Missouri. She graduated from Southwest High School in Kansas City and the University of Missouri in 1937. She married William Tucker in Memphis, Tennessee on June 8, 1941. They bought the Star-Journal in 1947. When he died in 1966 she continued to publish the newspaper until 2007 when she sold it to the News-Press & Gazette Company. She first female president of the University of Missouri curators in 1972, first female president of Missouri Associated Dailies in 1973; Missouri School of Journalism's Honor Medal winner in 1976; Missouri Press Association's first female president in 1982; first female Board of Trustees Member for Westminster College; and received the National Newspaper Association The National Newspaper Association (NNA) is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadsheet
A broadsheet is the largest newspaper format and is characterized by long Vertical and horizontal, vertical pages, typically of in height. Other common newspaper formats include the smaller Berliner (format), Berliner and Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid–Compact (newspaper), compact formats. Historically, the broadsheet format emerged in the 17th century as a means for printing Broadside ballad, musical and popular prints, and later became a medium for political activism through the reprinting of speeches. In Britain, the broadsheet newspaper developed in response to a 1712 tax on newspapers based on their page counts. Outside Britain, the broadsheet evolved for various reasons, including style and authority. Broadsheets are often associated with more intellectual and in-depth content compared to their tabloid counterparts, featuring detailed stories and less Sensationalism, sensational material. They are commonly used by newspapers aiming to provide comprehensive cover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallace Crossley
Wallace Crossley (October 4, 1874 – December 13, 1943) was the 29th Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, serving with Governor Frederick D. Gardner, and publisher of '' The Daily Star-Journal'' in Warrensburg, Missouri. Biography Crossley was born in Bellair, Missouri in Cooper County, Missouri. He was raised in Boone County, Missouri and grew up in Mexico, Missouri where he attended high school. He attended William Jewell College and the University of Missouri. After college he returned to Mexico to teach English and then taught at Warrensburg Normal School (now University of Central Missouri). In 1907 he acquired ''The Daily Star-Journal'' and continued to own it until his death. He was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from 1905 to 1911 and Missouri State Senate The Missouri Senate is the upper chamber of the Missouri General Assembly. It has 34 members, representing districts with an average population of 181,000. Its members serve four-year terms, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play '' Our American Cousin'' at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, Lincoln died of his wounds the following day at 7:22 a.m. in the Petersen House opposite the theater. He was the first U.S. president to be assassinated. His funeral and burial were marked by an extended period of national mourning. Near the end of the American Civil War, Lincoln's assassination was part of a larger political conspiracy intended by Booth to revive the Confederate cause by eliminating the three most important officials of the federal government. Conspirators Lewis Powell and David Herold were assigned to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward, and George Atzerodt was tasked with killing Vice President Andrew Johnson. Beyond Lincoln's death, the plot failed: Seward was only wounded, and Johnson's would-be att ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
