''The Item'', formerly known as ''The Sumter Daily Item'' and ''The Daily Item'', is an independent morning
newspaper
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published in
Sumter, South Carolina
Sumter ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Sumter County, South Carolina, United States. The city makes up the Sumter, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area. Sumter County, along with Clarendon and Lee counties, form the core of Sumter–Lee ...
, five days a week (Tuesday to Friday), with a "Weekend Edition" delivered on Saturday mornings, by Osteen Publishing Company. It has a circulation of approximately 20,000.
History
The paper, then called ''The Sumter Daily Item'', was first published on October 15, 1894, by Hubert Graham Osteen.
It previously had been operated as ''
The Watchman and Southron
''The Item'', formerly known as ''The Sumter Daily Item'' and ''The Daily Item'', is an independent morning newspaper published in Sumter, South Carolina, five days a week (Tuesday to Friday), with a "Weekend Edition" delivered on Saturday morn ...
'' (a merger of ''Sumter Watchman'' and ''True Southron'').
It was South Carolina's first small-town newspaper.
Osteen served as the paper's editor and publisher until his retirement in 1946.
In 2008, the paper changed its Monday edition to a tabloid format before abandoning the Monday edition altogether. However, the paper's website is updated each Monday, with news and
obituaries
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.
The paper covers Sumter,
Lee
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Arts and entertainment
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and
Clarendon counties, with a dedicated bureau located in Manning which publishes a weekly section, "The Clarendon Sun," each Tuesday. Lakeside, magazine covering the Sumter, Clarendon, Orangeburg, Berkeley and Calhoun County areas of Lake Marion is also published six times a year.
Staff
Newsroom
CONTENT TEAM:
*News Editor Rhonda Barrick
*Features Editor Ivy Moore
*Sports Editor Dennis Brunson
*Senior Staff Writer Bruce Mills
*Staff Writer Adrienne Sarvis
*Staff Writer Jim Hilley
*Sports Writer Justin Driggers
*Archivist Sammy Way
*Newsclerk/Librarian Sandra Holbert
See also
*
Sumter News
The ''Sumter News'' was a newspaper serving Sumter, South Carolina. It became the ''True Southron'' and eventually merged with ''The Watchman'' to form ''The Watchman and Southron''.
History
H. L. Darr was a journalist in Charleston, South Carolin ...
References
External links
''The Item'' website
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Newspapers published in South Carolina
Sumter, South Carolina
Newspapers established in 1894
1894 establishments in South Carolina