The ''Cleveland News'' was a daily and Sunday American

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. It was published from 1905 until 1960 when it was absorbed by the rival paper '' The Cleveland Press''.

History

The ''Cleveland News'' traces its antecedents to 1868, when '' The Cleveland Leader'' titled its late edition the ''Evening News''. When a rival newspaper, the '' Cleveland Herald'', ended publication in 1885, the ''Leader'' acquired rights to the name and retitled its evening edition the ''News & Herald''. Cited in In 1905, investment banker and businessman Charles Augustus Otis, Jr. — who the previous year had purchased the ''Cleveland World'' — bought both the ''News & Herald'' and the '' Evening Plain Dealer'', and merged the trio into the single afternoon daily paper, the ''World-News'', which debuted June 12, 1905. It became the ''Cleveland News'' on September 13, 1905. Daniel R. Hanna Sr., who had bought the morning newspaper the ''Cleveland Leader'' in 1910, bought the ''Cleveland News'' from Otis two years later, and consolidated operations in the new Leader Building at East 6th Street and Superior Avenue. ''

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'' in turn bought the ''Cleveland Leader'' from Hanna in 1917, and the ''Sunday Leader'' became the ''Sunday News-Leader'' and later the ''Sunday News''. Hanna remained involved, and in an effort to compete with the more successful '' Cleveland Press'' after

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, he hired Arthur B. "Mickey" McBride as circulation manager for the Sunday and daily ''Cleveland News'', which in 1926 moved to a new publishing plant at East 18th Street and Superior Avenue. After barely surviving the beginnings of the

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, the ''News'' in 1932 was transferred by Hanna's heirs to the newly formed Forest City Publishing Company, which had also taken control of ''The Plain Dealer''. Forest City ceased publishing the ''Sunday News'' on January 3, 1933, while continuing to publish the daily, staunchly Republican ''Cleveland News''. Forest City announced the sale of the ''News'' to the

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newspaper chain, owner of the ''Cleveland Press'', on January 23, 1960. As Sterling E. Graham, president of Forest City, characterized his paper, "Ever since its beginning 55 years ago, the ''News''' fate was to be a third newspaper." Its net circulation at the time was 134,550, compared with the ''Press''' 314,000. The latter paper was renamed the ''Cleveland Press and News''. ''The Plain Dealer'' moved into the former ''News'' headquarters.

References

{{reflist Defunct newspapers published in Cleveland Newspapers established in 1905 Publications disestablished in 1960 Defunct companies based in Cleveland 1905 establishments in Ohio