MY, HOW WE'VE GROWN DAILY NEWS HAS HISTORY AS VOICE OF THE VALLEY.Byline: - Daily News As the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. has grown and changed phenomenally during this century, so has the Daily News - one of the Valley's oldest businesses. The Van Nuys Call published its first issue Oct. 13, 1911. Six weeks later, Frank Keefer, a newspaper reporter from Pittsburgh, bought the paper from its founder, E.R. Elkins, and renamed it the Van Nuys News. The weekly paper was a noisy booster for its home community, but also reported big stories of the day such as the coming of electricity to the area in 1912. The News started publishing twice a week in 1922. In 1932, Keefer sold his interest to William Colfax Markham and his sons and daughter, Maurice, Ralph and Miriam. They joined with one of Keefer's earlier partners, Walter Mendenhall, who then became editor. His son, Ferdinand Mendenhall, was editor after his father. In the 1940s, to set itself apart from the competition, the paper started printing its front page on green paper, and in 1953 changed its name to the Valley News and Green Sheet. The paper came out three days a week in 1954, and four days in 1959. In the 1960s, the Valley News and Green Sheet expanded its coverage to the Conejo, Simi and Santa Clarita valleys. In 1973, the Markham and Mendenhall families sold the paper for $25 million to the Tribune Co., publisher of The Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Daily newspaper published in Chicago. The Tribune is one of the leading U.S. newspapers and long has been the dominant voice of the Midwest. Founded in 1847, it was bought in 1855 by six partners, including Joseph Medill (1823–99), who made the paper . The company dropped the green front page in 1976, started printing seven days a week in 1979 and in, 1981, stopped free distribution and changed the name to the Daily News. Then, in 1985, Jack Kent Cooke Jack Kent Cooke (25 October, 1912 – 6 April, 1997) was a Canadian-American entrepreneur who became one of the most widely-known executives in North American professional sports. , the owner of the Washington Redskins New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's Chrysler Building Chrysler Building, in midtown Manhattan, New York City, at Lexington Ave. between 42d and 43d St. The ultimate art deco-style skyscraper, it was commissioned by Walter P. Chrysler, designed by William Van Alen, and built in 1926–30. , bought the Daily News for $176 million. On May 31, 1987, he moved the operation to its current 132,000- square-foot building at 21221 Oxnard St. In 1990, a new printing plant was opened in Valencia. Cooke died in 1997, and his estate sold the paper to MediaNews Group Not to be confused with Media General, an unrelated newspaper and TV group. MediaNews Group, based in Denver, Colorado, is one of the largest newspaper companies in the United States. , headed by President and Chief Executive Officer William Dean Singleton William Dean Singleton is the chairman of the board of directors of the Associated Press, on which he has sat since 1999. He is also the founder, vice chairman and chief executive officer of MediaNews Group, the fourth-largest newspaper company in the United States in terms of . The sale price was not disclosed. Today, the Daily News has a Sunday circulation of more than 200,000. In addition, anyone in the world with Internet access can read its coverage instantly, any time, by accessing the paper's World Wide Web site: www.dailynews.com. CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: (color) The Daily News' printing facility is in Valencia. Hans Gutknecht Box: special features |
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