Omaha World-Herald
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| Omaha World-Herald | |
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| Image:Omaha World-Herald front page.jpg The July 27, 2005 front page of the Omaha World-Herald | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | OW-H employees |
| Publisher | John Gottschalk |
| Editor | Larry King |
| Founded | 1885 |
| Price | $ 0.50 Daily $ 1.50 Sunday |
| Headquarters | 1314 Douglas Street Omaha, Nebraska 68102 Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States |
| Circulation | 184,150 Daily 222,469 Sunday[1] |
| ISSN | 0276-4962 |
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| Website: omaha.com | |
The Omaha World-Herald, based in Omaha, Nebraska, is the primary daily newspaper of Nebraska as well as portions of southwest Iowa. It is the largest employee-owned newspaper company in the United States.
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[edit] History
The newspaper was founded in 1885 by Gilbert M. Hitchcock as the Omaha Evening World. It absorbed the Omaha Morning Herald in 1889. The paper was established as an independent political voice but quickly went into the Democratic Party column. William Jennings Bryan was its editor in 1894-96. Hitchcock served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and, starting in 1911, two Senate terms. The editorial page began leaning Republican after Hitchcock's death in 1934, when the newspaper fell into the hands of his son-in-law, Henry Doorly.
In 1963, the Hitchcock-Doorly heirs sold The World-Herald to Peter Kiewit, who, upon his death, left provisions to ensure that the paper would remain locally owned. One part of this plan was employee ownership. The newspaper continues to offer morning, evening and Sunday editions and is published in a modern production plant (the Freedom Center, which opened in 2001). In 2006, it purchased the Qwest Communications building in downtown Omaha as a new base for its news, editorial, circulation and business operations.
In December 2007, worldwide interest in the deaths of nine people (including the gunman) in the Westroads Mall Massacre overwhelmed the newspaper's Web site. The paper put more than 50 staff members to the task of covering the shootings, but no one out of reach of the print edition could read their coverage, even the day after the event.[2]
[edit] Other assets
Other assets owned by The World-Herald include daily and weekly newspapers in Nebraska and Iowa, advertising circulars and companies that provide services in marketing and information processing. Its principal daily newspapers are the Kearney Hub, the North Platte Telegraph, the Scottsbluff Star-Herald and the Ames (Iowa) Tribune.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ 2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation (PDF). BurrellesLuce (2007-03-31). Retrieved on 2007-05-30.
- ^ "Flat-footed in Omaha" [1]
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