"Fraser Walter (1846–1910), his second son by his first marriage. A.F. Walter remained chief proprietor of ""The Times"" until 1908, when it was converted into a company. He then became chairman of the board of directors, and on his death was succeeded in this position by his son John. John Walter (third) John Walter (8 October 1818 – 3 November 1894) was an English newspaper publisher and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1847 and 1885. Walter was born at Printing-house Square, the eldest son of John Walter, editor of ""The Times"". He was educated"
"John Walter (publisher) John Walter (1 January, 1738 – 17 November 1812) was the founder of ""The Times"" newspaper. He was born in London and was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, then located in London. Walter was engaged in a prosperous business as a coal merchant from the death of his father Richard Walter (about 1755/6) until 1781. He played a leading part in establishing the Coal Exchange in London; but shortly after 1781, when he began to occupy himself solely as an underwriter and became a member of Lloyds, he over-speculated and failed. In 1782 he bought from one"
"Pennsylvania Packet The Pennsylvania Packet, or the General Advertiser was an American newspaper founded in 1771 that, in 1784, became the first successful daily newspaper published in the United States. The paper was founded by John Dunlap as a weekly paper in late 1771. It was based in Philadelphia except during the British occupation of the city in 1777–1778, when Dunlap published the paper at Lancaster. David C. Claypoole eventually became a partner with Dunlap. As of September 21, 1784, the paper was issued as the Pennsylvania Packet, and Daily Advertiser, reflecting the paper's move to daily publication. The paper"
"recently founded ""North American"". The ""North American"" featured the 1771 founding of the ""Packet"" as its heritage. To the extent it can honestly be traced past this point, the final successor of the ""Packet"" can be said to be ""The Philadelphia Inquirer"". Pennsylvania Packet The Pennsylvania Packet, or the General Advertiser was an American newspaper founded in 1771 that, in 1784, became the first successful daily newspaper published in the United States. The paper was founded by John Dunlap as a weekly paper in late 1771. It was based in Philadelphia except during the British occupation of the city in"
"this time on Lord Cowper. He had then given up the management of the business to his eldest son, William, and had (1795) retired to Teddington, where he lived till his death. In 1759 he had married Frances Landen (died 1798), by whom he had six children. William Walter very soon gave up the duties he undertook in 1795, and in 1803 transferred the sole management of the business to his younger brother, John. John Walter (publisher) John Walter (1 January, 1738 – 17 November 1812) was the founder of ""The Times"" newspaper. He was born in London and was"
"John Walter (editor, born 1776) John Walter (23 February 1776 – 28 July 1847) was the son of John Walter, the founder of ""The Times"", and succeeded his father as the newspaper's second editor. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Trinity College, Oxford. About 1798 he was associated with his elder brother in the management of his father's business, and in 1803 became not only sole manager, but also editor of ""The Times"". Walter expressed his opposition to the administration of William Pitt the Younger, which cost him government advertisements and the loss of his appointment as printer"
"Magazine, and Universal Register"", a rival to the old ""Monthly Magazine"" of Sir Richard Phillips. John Watkins and Alaric Alexander Watts were among the early editors. A new series began in 1820 under the care of Thomas Campbell. Bulwer Lytton (1832), Theodore Hook, and Harrison Ainsworth (3rd ser., 1836) successively were editors. The magazine lasted to 1875. On 25 January 1817, Colburn brought out the first number of the ""Literary Gazette"", priced at one shilling. It was the earliest weekly newspaper devoted to literature, science, and the arts which obtained reputation and authority. Initially Hannibal Evans Lloyd, and Thomasina Ross"
"malicious partisan speculations and attacks over Franklin's involvement in the passage of the Stamp Act William Goddard reprinted almost the entire collection of Franklin essays from London papers in the ""Pennsylvania Chronicle"" which summarized Franklin's involvement and underlying opposition to the passage of this act. Pennsylvania Chronicle The Pennsylvania Chronicle and Universal Advertiser was an American colonial newspaper founded in 1767 that was published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, prior to the American Revolution and was founded by William Goddard and his business partners Joseph Galloway and Thomas Wharton. Benjamin Franklin, an associate of Galloway, was also a partner with the ""Chronicle""."
"and a flair for sensational journalism."" The ""Aspen Daily News"", which soon converted to a tabloid format on traditional newsprint, has had a competition over decades with ""The Aspen Times"", founded as a daily in 1881 before converting to a weekly in the 1920s. In the face of ""The News""' incursion, ""The Times"" introduced a daily edition beginning in 1988; as of 2016, ""The Times"" continues to publish daily. Danforth sold the ""Daily News"" in 2017. In 1989, Danforth, together with partners Mark Guerringue and Adam Hirshan, co-founded the free New Hampshire daily The Conway Daily Sun. The newspaper dropped"
"Pennsylvania Chronicle The Pennsylvania Chronicle and Universal Advertiser was an American colonial newspaper founded in 1767 that was published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, prior to the American Revolution and was founded by William Goddard and his business partners Joseph Galloway and Thomas Wharton. Benjamin Franklin, an associate of Galloway, was also a partner with the ""Chronicle"". The newspaper was established to challenge the power of the Penn family and ultimately the Crown authorities who at that time were placing laws and taxes on the colonists without fair representation in the British Parliament. The ""Chronicle"" was published once a week on a"
"conservative although its coverage of the UK ban on fox hunting was neutral, recognising that even in rural areas people are very divided on the issue. It was founded by Scottish businessman Peter Stewart Macliver and Newcastle journalist Walter Reid and first published on 1 June 1858. Macliver went on to found the ""Bristol Observer"". The ""Western Daily"" was bought by Bristol United Press (BUP), the same company which publishes the ""Bristol Evening Post"", in 1959 and since 1974 has been based at the company's building in Temple Way. BUP was bought in 1999 by the Daily Mail and General"
"Daily Record (Washington) The Daily Record is an American daily newspaper published in Ellensburg, Washington. The ""Record"" is published six days a week with a morning edition each Monday through Saturday and a weekend edition is delivered on Saturdays. The paper's current estimated circulation is 6,000 copies per day. This newspaper is a successor to the ""Kittitas County Localizer"", first published on July 12, 1883. After the official founding of the town of Ellensburg, that paper became the ""Ellensburg Localizer"". On July 1, 1909, the paper, now under the ownership of William S. Zimmerman and J.C. ""Cliff"" Kaynor, changed its"
"Walter Weldon Walter Weldon (31 October 1832 – 20 September 1885) FRS, FRSE was an English chemist, journalist. Weldon was brother to Ernest J. Weldon, founder of Weldon & Wilkinson Ltd. Walter's second son was Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, an English evolutionary zoologist and biometrician. In 1854 he began work as a journalist in London with ""The Dial"" (which was afterwards incorporated in ""The Morning Star""), and in 1860 he started a monthly magazine, ""Weldon's Register of Facts and Occurrences relating to Literature, the Sciences and the Arts"", which was later discontinued. His publications in the late 1800s were through"
"for its Sunday paper until the early 1970s. On September 3, 1884, ""The Boston Evening Record"" was started by the ""Boston Advertiser"" as a campaign newspaper. The ""Record"" was so popular that it was made a permanent publication. In 1904, William Randolph Hearst began publishing his own newspaper in Boston called ""The American"". Hearst ultimately ended up purchasing the ""Daily Advertiser"" in 1917. By 1938, the ""Daily Advertiser"" had changed to the ""Daily Record"", and ""The American"" had become the ""Sunday Advertiser"". A third paper owned by Hearst, called the ""Afternoon Record"", which had been renamed the ""Evening American"", merged"
"Walter Annenberg Walter Hubert Annenberg (March 13, 1908 – October 1, 2002) was an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and diplomat. Annenberg owned and operated Triangle Publications, which included ownership of ""The Philadelphia Inquirer"", ""TV Guide"", the ""Daily Racing Form"" and ""Seventeen"" magazine. He was appointed by President Richard Nixon as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, where he served from 1969 to 1974. Annenberg was born in Milwaukee and raised in New York. He attended the Wharton School, the business school at the University of Pennsylvania, though he dropped out to pursue stock investing. His father, Moses Annenberg, was"
"The Daily Telegraph The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally. It was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in 1855 as ""Daily Telegraph & Courier"". ""The Telegraph"" is widely regarded as a national ""newspaper of record"" and it maintains an international reputation for quality, having been described by the BBC as ""one of the world's great titles"". The paper's motto, ""Was, is, and will be"", appears in the editorial pages and has featured in every edition"
"his role as editor in 1867 but remained its proprietor till his death in 1884. It operated in a building at the junction of Wyndham Street and Glenealy, Central District, for some years, but had left no later than 1911, when the building was converted to the Wyndham Hotel. Daily Press (Hong Kong) The Daily Press (Traditional Chinese: 每日雜報, also 孖剌報, 孖剌西報 and 孖剌沙西報) was an English-language newspaper in Hong Kong, published from 1857 for about 80 years. Founded and edited by George M Ryder, it was the first daily newspaper in Hong Kong. In 1858, Yorick Jones Murrow, a"
"as a weekly newspaper The ""Journal""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s main competitors at the time were the ""Wolverine Citizen"", ""The Genesee Democrat"" and ""The Flint Globe"". The paper was sold in rapid succession to Doctor Carman, who sold ownership in December 1882 to George McConnolly and others until the ""Journal"" was purchased by the ""Flint Globe's""<nowiki> </nowiki> owner, Howard H. Fitzgerald , and merged as the ""Weekly Globe and Daily Journal"". The Booth Publishing Company, owned by Ralph H. Booth of Detroit, along with his brothers George and Edmund , purchased ownership of the ""Weekly Globe and Daily Journal"" in 1911. In 1919, the"
"Press Award for his series of articles about bicycling around Western New York. Only three members of the Butler family were publishers. The Buffalo News The Buffalo News is the daily newspaper of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area, located at 1 News Plaza in Downtown Buffalo, New York. The paper is owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. It was for decades the only newspaper fully owned by that company. The ""News"" was founded in 1873 by Edward Hubert Butler, Sr. as a Sunday paper. In 1880, it began publishing daily editions as well, and in 1914, it became an inversion"
"York Revolution, Penn State football, prep sports coverage of the YAIAA league and the local entertainment scene. The newspaper also operates a community blog portal at ydr.com/blogs. ""The Daily Record"" and ""The York Dispatch"" have worked under a joint operating agreement since 1990. Gannett Co. announced June 1, 2015, that it had acquired The Daily Record. In 1796, Solomon Meyer created ""Die York Gazette"", a weekly, German-language newspaper, which ""The York Daily Record"" credits as its earliest incarnation. After several years without publication of ""Die York Gazette"", William C. Harris created the English-language ""Gazette"" in 1815. Between 1821 and 1891,"
"moved from afternoon to morning publication in October 1999. In October 2017, Pioneer News Group Co. announced that it was selling its media division assets, including the ""Daily Record"", to the Adams Publishing Group. Daily Record (Washington) The Daily Record is an American daily newspaper published in Ellensburg, Washington. The ""Record"" is published six days a week with a morning edition each Monday through Saturday and a weekend edition is delivered on Saturdays. The paper's current estimated circulation is 6,000 copies per day. This newspaper is a successor to the ""Kittitas County Localizer"", first published on July 12, 1883. After"
"Walter Walker (politician) Walter Walker (April 3, 1883October 8, 1956) was a newspaper owner and editor in Colorado who served as Democratic United States Senator in late 1932 after being appointed to fill a vacancy pending a special election. Walker was born in Marion, Kentucky on April 3, 1883. The son of Robert C. Walker, the owner of the ""Crittenden Press"" newspaper, Walter Walker was educated locally, and then moved to Colorado in 1903. After settling in Grand Junction, Walker worked in the newspaper business, eventually becoming editor, manager, and chief owner of the Grand Junction ""Daily Sentinel"". Walker's staff"
"""New York Daily News"". New York World-Telegram The New York World-Telegram, later known as the New York World-Telegram and Sun, was a New York City newspaper from 1867 to 1966. Founded by James Gordon Bennett as ""The Evening Telegram"" in 1867, the newspaper began as the evening edition of ""The New York Herald"", which itself published its first issue in 1835. Following Bennett’s death, newspaper and magazine owner Frank A. Munsey purchased ""The Telegram"" in June 1920. Munsey’s associate Thomas W. Dewart, the late publisher and president of the ""New York Sun"", owned the paper for two years after Munsey"
"The Morning Post The Morning Post was a conservative daily newspaper published in London from 1772 to 1937, when it was acquired by ""The Daily Telegraph"". The paper was founded by John Bell. According to Historian Robert Darnton, The Morning Post consisted of paragraph-long news snippets, most of it false. Its original editor, the Reverend Sir Henry Bate Dudley, earned himself nicknames such as ""Reverend Bruiser"" or ""The Fighting Parson"", and was soon replaced by an even more vitriolic editor, Reverend William Jackson, also known as ""Dr. Viper"". Originally a Whig paper, it was purchased by Daniel Stuart in 1795,"
"beginning in 1861 to combine the ""Mobile Daily Register"" and competitor ""The Mobile Daily Advertiser"" to form ""The Mobile Daily Advertiser and Register"". About three years after the war, the ""Register"" was sold and combined again, this time to William d'Alton Mann of ""The Mobile Times"" and ""The Mobile Daily Register"". Isaac Donovan's arrival as the ""Register""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s new owner in 1871 marked the beginning of a new era for the stable newspaper, including a new position for editor Charles Carter Langdon. Langdon would become the ""Register""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s agricultural editor, giving him the opportunity to promote scientific approaches in the field. In"
"and generally known as ""The New York Globe"" from that point forwards. In 1923, newspaper owner and consolidator Frank Munsey bought the ""Globe"". Munsey merged the ""Globe"" into the ""New York Sun"", thus ending what ""Time"" magazine described at the time as the ""oldest daily newspaper in the United States"". Commercial Advertiser The New-York Commercial Advertiser was an evening American newspaper. It was published, with slight name variations, from 1797-1904, though it originated as the ""American Minerva"" founded in 1793. The paper had its origins in the ""American Minerva"", founded in 1793 by Noah Webster. Its first edition was published"
"remain a separate title and it was absorbed into the ""Telegraph"". The Morning Post The Morning Post was a conservative daily newspaper published in London from 1772 to 1937, when it was acquired by ""The Daily Telegraph"". The paper was founded by John Bell. According to Historian Robert Darnton, The Morning Post consisted of paragraph-long news snippets, most of it false. Its original editor, the Reverend Sir Henry Bate Dudley, earned himself nicknames such as ""Reverend Bruiser"" or ""The Fighting Parson"", and was soon replaced by an even more vitriolic editor, Reverend William Jackson, also known as ""Dr. Viper"". Originally"
"News"". Community Newspaper Holdings bought ""The Daily Item"" and ""The Danville News"" in late 2006 from Ottaway Community Newspapers, a division of Dow Jones & Company. In May 2015, the newspaper published a letter to the editor calling for the execution of US President Barack Obama. The newspaper later apologized. The Daily Item (Sunbury) The Daily Item is a daily newspaper in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, covering the Central Susquehanna Valley Region. It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. ""The Sunbury Daily"" (founded 1872) and ""The Evening Item"" (1893) merged July 1, 1936. Publishing five afternoons per week, ""The Daily Item"""
"oldest continuously published newspaper, was founded in 1764 as a semi-weekly paper; it did not publish daily until 1836. ""The New Hampshire Gazette"", which has trademarked its claim of being ""The Nation's Oldest Newspaper"", was founded in 1756 as a weekly. Since the 1890s it has been published only on weekends. The ""Post"" was founded by Alexander Hamilton with about US$10,000 from a group of investors in the autumn of 1801 as the ""New-York Evening Post"", a broadsheet. Hamilton's co-investors included other New York members of the Federalist Party, such as Robert Troup and Oliver Wolcott, who were dismayed by"
"Daily Press (Hong Kong) The Daily Press (Traditional Chinese: 每日雜報, also 孖剌報, 孖剌西報 and 孖剌沙西報) was an English-language newspaper in Hong Kong, published from 1857 for about 80 years. Founded and edited by George M Ryder, it was the first daily newspaper in Hong Kong. In 1858, Yorick Jones Murrow, a tenacious Welshman born in 1817, took over the newspaper and he inaugurated the Chinese-language paper ""Hongkong Chinese and Foreign News"" (香港中外新報), published three times per week. Murrow led the paper on fearless attacks on the Colonial administration, leading ultimately to his imprisonment on a charge of libel. He relinquished"
"Evelyn Hall. Including those by his wife's daughters from her first two marriages (Diane Deshong and Elizabeth Kabler), he left seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Walter Annenberg Walter Hubert Annenberg (March 13, 1908 – October 1, 2002) was an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and diplomat. Annenberg owned and operated Triangle Publications, which included ownership of ""The Philadelphia Inquirer"", ""TV Guide"", the ""Daily Racing Form"" and ""Seventeen"" magazine. He was appointed by President Richard Nixon as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, where he served from 1969 to 1974. Annenberg was born in Milwaukee and raised in New York. He"
"Daily News Record Daily News Record (or DNR) was an American fashion trade journal published by Fairchild Publications, Inc.. ""DNR"" started in 1890 when Edmund Fairchild used the wealth he had accumulated selling soap to purchase the ""Chicago Herald Gazette"", a newspaper which focused on the men’s clothing business. Along with his brother Luis, Fairchild published a mimeographed paper which they called the ""Daily Trade Record"" and distributed at 1893 Chicago World's Fair. The paper was so successful that the pair decided to continue publication even after the fair finished. It acquired its current name some time later, and included"
"Daily News Record Daily News Record (or DNR) was an American fashion trade journal published by Fairchild Publications, Inc.. ""DNR"" started in 1890 when Edmund Fairchild used the wealth he had accumulated selling soap to purchase the ""Chicago Herald Gazette"", a newspaper which focused on the men’s clothing business. Along with his brother Luis, Fairchild published a mimeographed paper which they called the ""Daily Trade Record"" and distributed at 1893 Chicago World's Fair. The paper was so successful that the pair decided to continue publication even after the fair finished. It acquired its current name some time later, and included"