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30-531: The newspaper was founded as the Hutchinson County Herald in 1926 by David M. Warren Sr., who sold it to oilman Roy Whittenburg in 1946. In 1956, Whittenburg sold it to his brother-in-law, W. Glynn Morris. After Morris' retirement in 1977, Jimmy Allison became publisher In 1978, Donrey Media Group bought the paper and Donald W. Reynolds became publisher. The company sold the newspaper to Community Newspaper Holdings (CNHI) in 1998. In 2001, CNHI put

60-618: A free Thursday tabloid, delivered door to door, featuring stories, comics, and advertisements for his stores. Three years later, circulation had hit 65,000 per week, making some ad revenue. On August 31, the paper began publishing as an evening daily with paid subscriptions. One year later, the Free Press circulation reached 33,000, within reach of another p.m. competitor, The Chattanooga News (circulation 35,000). McDonald acquired The Chattanooga News from George Fort Milton Jr. in December 1939, when

90-619: A joint venture with WEHCO Media Inc. , in Arkansas. On November 28, 2010, Stephens Media Iowa, LLC, a subsidiary of Stephens Media, acquired several newspapers, including the Ames Tribune , Boone News-Republican , Dallas County News , Nevada Journal , Ames About People & Advertiser , Tri-County Times , and Algona Upper Des Moines from Midlands Newspapers Inc., a subsidiary of the Omaha World-Herald Company. In August, 2011,

120-581: A radio broadcasting company in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 2010, Stephens Media contracted with the litigation firm Righthaven LLC , giving it the power to enforce the company's copyrights when online violators go beyond the bounds of fair use. More than 141 lawsuits have been filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas since mid-March. In a column published in the RJ shortly after the lawsuits began, publisher Sherman Frederick, said

150-518: A week on Sundays. In-person tutorials on how to access the paper's digital edition were offered in community recreational centers, hotel conference rooms and at the newsroom. The total investment for the initiative was $ 6 million. In March 2024, the newspaper sent a letter to readers announcing it had been running at a loss in recent years due in part to the COVID-19 recession in the United States and

180-491: Is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Chattanooga, Tennessee , and is distributed in the metropolitan Chattanooga region of southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia . It is one of Tennessee's major newspapers and is owned by WEHCO Media, Inc ., a diversified communications company with ownership in 14 daily newspapers, 11 weekly newspapers and 13 cable television companies in six states. The Chattanooga Times

210-660: The California Newspapers Partnership and the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette . The company had been expanding its interactive Internet business, operating online sites for its newspapers and portal sites like LasVegas.com, which is licensed to Greenspun Media Group . The company is also a partner in the California Newspapers Partnership with MediaNews and Gannett. The company also formed Northwest Arkansas Newspapers LLC in November 2009,

240-653: The Chattanooga Free Press . In 1998, Hussman bought the Free Press . A year later, he bought the Times as well and merged the two papers. The first edition of the Chattanooga Times Free Press was published on January 5, 1999. The Times Free Press runs two editorial pages : one staunchly liberal , the other staunchly conservative , reflecting the editorial leanings of the Times and Free Press , respectively. The Tennessee Press Association recognized

270-495: The Chattanooga Times Free Press was named a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for "Speak No Evil." In 2017, the newspaper was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for "The Poverty Puzzle." In September 2021, the newspaper started offering a free IPad to all print subscribers as a way to promote the paper's digital replica. The plan was to cease weekday print sometime in mid-2022 and only print once

300-604: The News-Herald up for sale along with 30 other properties, including fellow West Texas papers the Big Spring Herald and Sweetwater Reporter . Horizon Publications bought the three West Texas papers in 2003. Official website This article about a Texas newspaper is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Donrey Media Group Stephens Media LLC was a Las Vegas , Nevada , United States, diversified media investment company. It owned stakes in

330-567: The Post ceased publication after the U.S. filed an anti-trust suit against the paper. The News-Free Press gave Chattanooga its first full-color newspaper photos. Each newspaper won a single Pulitzer Prize . In 1956, Charles L. Bartlett of the Washington Bureau of The Chattanooga Times won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting , for articles leading to the resignation of the secretary of

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360-638: The Times , with 50,078. In competition, the Times began an evening newspaper competitor, the Chattanooga Evening Times . One year later, however, the competing newspapers joined business and production operations, while maintaining separate news and editorial departments. The Times ceased publishing in the evening and the News-Free Press dropped its Sunday edition. The two shared offices at 117 E. 10th St. Twenty-four years later, McDonald withdrew from

390-546: The Times Free Press as the best newspaper in Tennessee in 2002. One year later, Editor & Publisher magazine named the Times Free Press as one of 10 newspapers in the United States "doing it right". In May 2013, the paper bought a new offset printing press to replace its flexography printing press . The multimillion-dollar investment added more color capability and production efficiency. On Monday, April 14, 2014,

420-644: The Air Force , Harold E. Talbott . In 1977, staff photographer Robin Hood of the Chattanooga News-Free Press received the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography . The photo was of legless Vietnam veteran Eddie Robinson in his wheelchair watching a rained-out parade in Chattanooga with his tiny son on his lap. When business declined for the News-Free Press , 14 employees mortgaged their homes to help keep

450-717: The Algona Upper Des Moines was sold to Hallmark Media. In February 2015, Stephens Media was purchased by GateHouse Media for $ 102.8 million. In December 2015, GateHouse sold the Las Vegas Review-Journal , the Stephens group's largest paper, to casino magnate Sheldon Adelson for $ 140 million. The company was called Donrey Media Group , which was founded by Arkansas media mogul Donald W. Reynolds and based in Fort Smith, Arkansas . After Reynolds died in 1993 at

480-789: The Stephens Media copyrights by Righthaven was being closely watched by other publishers, as is the debate it has generated. Critics of the relatively new practice have coined it ' copyright trolling ', and argue that the purpose of such enforcement is to make a profit. In the Poynter article, Stephens Media general counsel Mark Hinueber says the goal is to make sure the company's intellectual rights are protected. "We were seeing our entire work product in some stories just being right-clicked and cut and pasted into blogs, where people were selling Google ads around them and making money." The Las Vegas Sun has been thoroughly documenting Righthaven's activities and

510-497: The U.S. Justice Department, and a new Arkansas limited liability company, Northwest Arkansas Newspaper LLC , was formed. Stephens Media sold its interest in the joint venture to WEHCO on May 5, 2016, which then assumed all control of operations of the newspapers in the joint venture. Newspapers in the joint venture include: Arkansas Iowa Nevada North Carolina Oklahoma Texas Tennessee Chattanooga Times Free Press The Chattanooga Times Free Press

540-494: The age of 86, the company was sold to the Stephens family of Arkansas, known for their Little Rock investment banking business Stephens Inc. Some of Donrey's properties were sold off, and the company moved its headquarters to Las Vegas , Nevada , home of its largest newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal . The company was renamed Stephens Media Group in 2002. In June 2006, the company became known as Stephens Media LLC. The company has no connection with Stephens Media Group ,

570-531: The agreement. He bought the Davenport Hosiery Mills building at 400 E. 11th St. in 1966, and competition resumed between the two papers. The News-Free Press was the first paper in the nation to dissolve a joint operating agreement . That August, the day after the News-Free Press resumed Sunday publication, the Times responded with an evening newspaper: the Chattanooga Post . On Feb. 25, 1970,

600-656: The best of their ability. Righthaven's lawsuits came under increasing judicial scrutiny, which led to Righthaven being found in June 2011 to lack standing to sue for alleged infringement of copyrighted material to which it holds only a limited license, as such a license does not confer the right to sue for infringement. Sanctions against Righthaven and its attorney, Steven A. Gibson, of Nevada law firm Dickinson Wright, are currently being contemplated by one judge. Righthaven later had its assets seized to pay judgments levied against it in lawsuits it filed against those whom it said infringed on

630-544: The copyrights of clients. As a result, copyrights which had been "sold" by Stephens to Righthaven were "sold back" to Stephens for $ 80,000 to pay legal fees. In September 2009, Stephens Media and WEHCO Media Inc. , owner of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , announced plans to combine their newspaper operations in Northwest Arkansas and operate as a single company. The venture was approved in November 2009 by

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660-476: The majority bondholders of the News , specifically Milton's step-mother Abby Crawford Milton, and her three children, acted on a technical missed payment deadline of bond payment obligations—allowing them to foreclose on the paper. Despite heroic sacrifice and fundraising by George Fort Milton and his employees, payments to the creditors were rejected as they had already agreed to sell the paper to Roy McDonald, publisher of

690-520: The management of the paper to his brother-in-law Harry C. Adler when he purchased The New York Times (circulation 20,000). Ochs remained publisher of the Chattanooga Times . Ochs' slogan, "To give the news impartially, without fear or favor" remains affixed atop the paper's mast today. The Times was controlled by the Ochs-Sulzberger family until 1999. In 1933, Roy Ketner McDonald launched

720-553: The newspaper afloat. In the late 1970s, Walter E. Hussman Jr. , the 31-year-old publisher of the Arkansas Democrat , approached McDonald for counsel regarding a bitter struggle with the Arkansas Gazette . In 1980, the Times and the News-Free Press entered into a new joint operating agreement. In 1990, after leading the paper for 54 years, McDonald died at age 88. Three years later, the paper returned to its original name:

750-539: The paper, an online edition of the news product, and classified ads, as well. In late 2010, the newspaper launched "Right 2 Know", an online database of police mugshots, salaries of government employees, and a map of shootings in Hamilton County, but in August 2020, the newspaper removed the database, noting that the information published rarely met the newspaper's editorial standard of newsworthiness. The Times Free Press

780-593: The primary goal with the partnership with Righthaven was to deter theft of the company's copyrighted materials. He said if the company was successful, he hoped Righthaven would find other media clients. In late August, WEHCO Media, which owns the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and the Chattanooga Times Free Press , signed on with the firm. MediaNews Group has also used Righthaven to file a copyright infringement suit. The aggressive enforcement of

810-592: The response. The Sun ’s outside law firm, Lewis and Roca, is defending several of the Righthaven suits. Targets of the Righthaven lawsuits included bloggers, political forums, major political parties, and several of the newspaper's own sources including NORML , DailyPaul .com, InfoWars , Free Republic , and others. On August 25, 2010, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced that they will make efforts to assist Righthaven LLC defendants to

840-495: The rival Free Press , for $ 150,000. McDonald then appropriated the News name to prevent Milton from using it, and the Free Press became the News-Free Press . In their guide to writing, The Elements of Style , William Strunk and E. B. White used the paper as an illustration of comically misleading punctuation, noting that the hyphen made it sound "as though the paper were news-free, or devoid of news." By 1941, News-Free Press daily circulation reached 51,600, surpassing

870-515: Was first published on December 15, 1869, by the firm Kirby & Gamble. In 1878, 20-year-old Adolph Ochs borrowed money and bought half interest in the struggling morning paper. Two years later when he assumed full ownership, it cost him $ 5,500. In 1892, the paper's staff moved to the Ochs Building on Georgia Avenue at East Eighth Street, which is now the Dome Building. In 1896, Ochs entrusted

900-427: Was raising subscriptions rates from $ 34 to $ 39 a month. When the Chattanooga Times Free Press launched its website in 2004, the site was only accessible to paid subscribers and featured only a handful of section pages and links. Four years later, in early 2008, the redesigned online presence of timesfreepress.com debuted, with an emphasis on breaking news, video and multimedia. The site features all local content in

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