Sacramento Union

The Sacramento Union was a newspaper founded in 1851 that was the oldest daily newspaper west of the Mississippi before it closed its doors in 1994, no longer able to compete with The Sacramento Bee which began just six years after the Union in 1857.

Related Topics:
Newspaper - 1851 - 1994 - The Sacramento Bee - 1857

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Writer and journalist Mark Twain worked at the Union in 1866.

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By the time the newspaper folded, one of its main editors was Joseph Farah, who founded World Net Daily years later.

Related Topics:
Joseph Farah - World Net Daily

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In late 2004 a modernized Sacramento Union returned with bimonthly magazines, then started publishing monthly in May 2005. The publishers do not intend to return as a print daily newspaper, concentrating instead on web publishing.

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