Dayton Daily News
 The July 9, 2009 front page of the Dayton Daily News |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Cox Enterprises |
| Publisher | Julia Wallace |
| Editor | Jana Collier |
| Founded | 1898 |
| Headquarters | 1611 South Main Street Dayton, Ohio 45409  United States |
| Circulation | Mon.-Wed.: 89,858 Thurs.: 140,316 Fri.: 106,640 Sat.: 95,551 Sun.: 144,375 [1] |
| ISSN | 0897-0920 |
| OCLC number | 232118157 |
| Official website | daytondailynews.com |
The Dayton Daily News (DDN) is a daily newspaper published in Dayton, Ohio. It is owned by Cox Enterprises. In the 2010 Associated Press Society of Ohio newspaper competition that takes place every year, DaytonDailyNews.com was named "the best large-newspaper web site in Ohio".[2]
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[edit] History
On August 15, 1898, James M. Cox purchased the Dayton Evening News. One week later, on August 22, 1898 he renamed it the Dayton Daily News.
The paper was founded with the intention of pioneering a new type of journalism, keeping weak ties to politicians and advertisers while seeking objectivity and public advocacy as primary functions. These goals pushed the paper in the direction of valuing the public interest.[3]
A Sunday edition was launched on November 2, 1913. In 1948, Cox purchased two morning papers, The Journal and The Herald, from the Herrick-Kumler Company. The next year he combined them to form The Journal Herald.[4]
For the next four decades, The Journal-Herald was the conservative morning paper, and the Dayton Daily News (which had a larger circulation) was the liberal evening paper. The papers operated newsrooms on separate floors of the same building in downtown Dayton. On September 15, 1986, The Journal-Herald and the Daily News were merged to become a morning paper, the Dayton Daily News and Journal-Herald, with both names appearing on the front page. The Journal-Herald name last appeared on the paper's front-page flag on December 31, 1987.
Cox was the Democratic Party's candidate for U.S. President in the election of 1920, and the city of Dayton has voted for the Democratic candidate in presidential elections since. Cox's running mate for vice president was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was elected president in 1932.
In 1998, reporters Russell Carollo and Jeff Nesmith won the Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on dangerous flaws and mismanagement in the military health care system, a series very relevant to its readership because of the presence of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in neighboring Greene County.
The paper is the home of cartoonist Mike Peters, who draws the Mother Goose and Grimm strip and won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1981, and columnist Dale Huffman, who had written a daily metro column every day for more than eight years before beginning a hiatus on January 30, 2008 after he was diagnosed with kidney cancer.
The paper was led by Jeff Bruce as editor from 1998 to 2008. Bruce replaced Max Jennings, who retired. When Bruce retired in 2007 Kevin Riley, 44, a graduate of the University of Dayton was named editor. Riley spent most of his career with the paper, starting as a copy editor and later serving as sports editor, Internet general manager, and publisher of the Springfield News-Sun in Springfield, Ohio. He was promoted from deputy editor.
In 2010, Riley was named editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and that paper's editor, Julia Wallace, was moved to Dayton to head a new combined newspaper, television and radio newsroom. She was soon after named publisher and Jana Collier promoted to editor from managing editor.
The paper's editorial offices were in downtown Dayton for more than 100 years. Since 1999, the paper has been printed at a modern facility near Interstate 75 in Franklin, about fifteen miles to the south. In April, 2007, the newspaper's editorial and business offices moved to the former NCR Building 31 at 1611 S. Main St. on Dayton's south side, near the University of Dayton campus and suburban Oakwood. In late 2010/early 2011 the studios of sister television station WHIO-TV was relocated to the new facility.
[edit] Notable employees
The following people at some point worked at or wrote for the Dayton Daily News:
- Erma Bombeck (at The Journal-Herald)
- Si Burick
- Ritter Collett (at The Journal-Herald)
- James M. Cox
- Clem Hamilton
- Dale Huffman
- Hal McCoy
- Jeff Nesmith
- Mike Peters
- John Scalzi
- Myron Scott
- Dennis Shere
- Charley Stough III
- Dann Stupp
[edit] Bibliography
- Dayton Ink. Dayton, Ohio: The Dayton Daily News, 1998.
[edit] References
[edit] Citations
- ^ "Cox Media Group Ohio, Dayton Daily News Total Paid Circulation". March 2010. http://www.cmgohio.com/?x=products/daytondailynews&menuID=ddn.
- ^ "DDN Website Award". http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/ohio-news/daytondailynews-com-wins-best-web-site-award-in-ohio-news-site-contest-683607.html. Retrieved 2007-03-02.
- ^ Cayton 2002, p. 209
- ^ Zumwald, Teresa (1998). "Dayton Daily News history: James M. Cox, Publisher". Dayton Daily News. http://www.daytondailynews.com/history/content/service/info/history/cox.html. Retrieved 2007-03-02.
[edit] Sources
- Cayton, Andrew Robert Lee (2002), Ohio: the history of a people, Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, ISBN 978-0-8142-0899-1
[edit] External links
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