Dayton Daily News

The Dayton Daily News is a daily newspaper published at Dayton, Ohio. It is owned by Cox Enterprises.

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Newspaper - Dayton, Ohio - Cox Enterprises

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The paper's association with Cox began August 15, 1892, when James M. Cox purchased the Dayton Evening Journal. One week later, on August 22, he renamed it the Dayton Daily News. A Sunday edition was launched on November 2, 1913. In 1948, Cox purchased two morning papers, the Journal and the Herald, from Colonel Lewis Rock. The next year he combined them to form the Dayton Journal-Herald.

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August 15 - 1892 - James M. Cox - August 22 - November 2 - 1913 - 1948 - Lewis Rock - Dayton Journal-Herald

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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.

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September 15 - 1986 - December 31 - 1987

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The newspaper's editorial position is generally Democratic, befitting its Democratic hometown.

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In 1998 reporters Russell Carollo and Jeff Nesmith would win 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.

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1998 - Russell Carollo - Jeff Nesmith - Pulitzer Prize - Wright-Patterson Air Force Base - Greene County

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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 daily columnist Dale Huffman.

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Mike Peters - Mother Goose and Grimm - 1981 - Dale Huffman

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The paper's editorial offices are located in downtown Dayton, but the paper is printed in a modern facility adjoining Interstate 75 in Franklin, Ohio, about fifteen miles to the south.

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Interstate 75 - Franklin, Ohio

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