Charleston Gazette-Mail
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The Charleston Gazette-Mail is a Saturday and Sunday newspaper
in Charleston, West Virginia
, USA. It is published by a joint venture between the Charleston Gazette and the Charleston Daily Mail
which publish editorially rival, but non-competitive, in business terms, papers on weekdays.
Governor Walter Clark, entered into a Joint Operating Agreement. The two papers remained editorially separate, but combined all business functions and carried the same advertising, with each owning 50% of the joint venture company, Charleston Newspapers Inc., from which profits were split. Both papers began publishing Monday-Saturday, with subscribers of both receiving the combined Gazette-Mail on Sunday.
The paper was produced by a combined staff between 1961 and 1991, when the agreement was renegotiated so that the Gazette staff would produce the paper. The local editorial viewpoint of the paper after that point mirrored that of the Gazette. The paper, however, has always featured a different font
package from either paper, and has featured national columnists (which reflected both papers' viewpoints) and comics from both papers.
The Gazette website is updated with the Saturday and Sunday material from the Gazette-Mail, but the Daily Mail website is not.
Newspaper
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in Charleston, West Virginia
Charleston, West Virginia
Charleston is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is located at the confluence of the Elk and Kanawha Rivers in Kanawha County. As of the 2010 census, it has a population of 51,400, and its metropolitan area 304,214. It is the county seat of Kanawha County.Early...
, USA. It is published by a joint venture between the Charleston Gazette and the Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston Daily Mail
The Charleston Daily Mail is a Pulitzer Prize winning Monday-Friday morning newspaper in Charleston, West Virginia.-Publishing History:The Daily Mail was founded in 1914 by former Alaska Gov. Walter Eli Clark and remained the property of his heirs until 1987. Governor Clark described the newspaper...
which publish editorially rival, but non-competitive, in business terms, papers on weekdays.
Sunday
In 1961, the morning Gazette, owned by the Daily Gazette Company, and the afternoon Daily Mail (which also published a Sunday morning edition), owned by former AlaskaAlaska
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Governor Walter Clark, entered into a Joint Operating Agreement. The two papers remained editorially separate, but combined all business functions and carried the same advertising, with each owning 50% of the joint venture company, Charleston Newspapers Inc., from which profits were split. Both papers began publishing Monday-Saturday, with subscribers of both receiving the combined Gazette-Mail on Sunday.
The paper was produced by a combined staff between 1961 and 1991, when the agreement was renegotiated so that the Gazette staff would produce the paper. The local editorial viewpoint of the paper after that point mirrored that of the Gazette. The paper, however, has always featured a different font
Font
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package from either paper, and has featured national columnists (which reflected both papers' viewpoints) and comics from both papers.
Saturday
In 2004 the Gazette purchased the Daily Mail, which was the subject of a law suit under anti-trust laws. It shut down the Daily Mails Saturday edition and began a Saturday Gazette-Mail. This publication carries two editorial pages, one reflecting the more conservative Daily Mails views and one reflecting the more liberal view of the Gazette, as well as two comics pages. It is otherwise, however, indistinguishable from the weekday Gazette, using its font package, being produced (apart from the Daily Mail editorial page) by its staff, and reflecting its views.The Gazette website is updated with the Saturday and Sunday material from the Gazette-Mail, but the Daily Mail website is not.