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Newspaper
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A newspaper is a serial publication containing news about current events, other informative articles about politics, sports, arts, and so on, and advertising. A newspaper is usually, but not exclusively, printed on relatively inexpensive, the journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. As of 2017, most newspapers are now published online as well as in print, the online versions are called online newspapers or news websites. Newspapers are typically published daily or weekly, News magazines are also weekly, but they have a magazine format. General-interest newspapers typically publish news articles and feature articles on national and international news as well as local news, typically the paper is divided into sections for each of those major groupings. Papers also include articles which have no byline, these articles are written by staff writers, a wide variety of material has been published in newspapers. As of 2017, newspapers may also provide information about new movies, most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. Some newspapers are government-run or at least government-funded, their reliance on advertising revenue, the editorial independence of a newspaper is thus always subject to the interests of someone, whether owners, advertisers, or a government. Some newspapers with high editorial independence, high quality. This is a way to avoid duplicating the expense of reporting from around the world, circa 2005, there were approximately 6,580 daily newspaper titles in the world selling 395 million print copies a day. Worldwide annual revenue approached $100 billion in 2005-7, then plunged during the financial crisis of 2008-9. Revenue in 2016 fell to only $53 billion, hurting every major publisher as their efforts to gain online income fell far short of the goal. Besides remodeling advertising, the internet has also challenged the business models of the era by crowdsourcing both publishing in general and, more specifically, journalism. In addition, the rise of news aggregators, which bundle linked articles from online newspapers. Increasing paywalling of online newspapers may be counteracting those effects, the oldest newspaper still published is the Gazzetta di Mantova, which was established in Mantua in 1664. While online newspapers have increased access to newspapers by people with Internet access, literacy is also a factor which prevents people who cannot read from being able to benefit from reading newspapers. Periodicity, They are published at intervals, typically daily or weekly. This ensures that newspapers can provide information on newly-emerging news stories or events, currency, Its information is as up to date as its publication schedule allows
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Wilmington, North Carolina
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Wilmington is a port city and the county seat of New Hanover County in coastal southeastern North Carolina, United States. The population is 112,067, according to the 2010 Census it is the eighth most populous city in the state, Wilmington was settled by European Americans along the Cape Fear River. Its historic downtown has a one-mile-long Riverwalk, originally developed as a tourist attraction and it is minutes away from nearby beaches. The National Trust for Historic Preservation named Wilmington, North Carolina, in 2003 the city was designated by the US Congress as a Coast Guard City. It is the port for the USCGC Diligence, a United States Coast Guard medium endurance cutter. The World War II battleship USS North Carolina is held as a war memorial, located across from the port area. Other attractions include the Cape Fear Museum, the Wilmington Hammerheads United Soccer Leagues soccer team, Wilmington is the home of EUE Screen Gems Studios, the largest domestic television and movie production facility outside of California. Dream Stage 10, the facilitys newest sound stage, is the third-largest in the US and it houses the largest special-effects water tank in North America. After the studios opening in 1984, Wilmington became a center of American film. Numerous movies in a range of genres and several series, including Iron Man 3, Foxs Sleepy Hollow, One Tree Hill, Dawsons Creek. In recent years, however, the end of tax credits to the industry has severely impacted filmmaking in the entire area. The area had long inhabited by various cultures of indigenous peoples, at the time of European encounter. The ethnic European and African history of Wilmington spans more than two and a half centuries, giovanni da Verrazano is reportedly the first European to observe the area, including the citys present site, in the early 16th century. The first permanent European settlement in the area came in the 1720s when English colonists began settling the area, in September 1732, a community was founded on land owned by John Watson on the Cape Fear River, at the confluence of its northwest and northeast branches. The settlement, founded by the first royal governor, George Burrington, was called New Carthage, governor Gabriel Johnston soon after established his government there for the North Carolina colony. In 1739 or 1740, the town was incorporated with a new name, Wilmington, in honor of Spencer Compton, many of the settlers were indentured servants, mainly from the British Isles and northern Europe. As the indentured servants gained their freedom, the colonists imported a number of African slaves as laborers into the port city. By 1767, slaves accounted for more than 62% of the population of the Lower Cape Fear region, many worked in the port as laborers, and some in ship-related trades
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Confederate States of America
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The Confederate States, officially the Confederate States of America, commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was a breakaway country of 11 secessionist slave states existing from 1861 to 1865. It was never recognized as an Independent country, although it achieved belligerent status by Britain. A new Confederate government was established in February 1861 before Lincoln took office in March, after the Civil War began in April, four slave states of the Upper South – Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina – also declared their secession and joined the Confederacy. The government of the United States rejected the claims of secession, the Civil War began with the April 12,1861, Confederate attack upon Fort Sumter, a Union fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. In spring 1865, after four years of fighting which led to an estimated 620,000 military deaths, all the Confederate forces surrendered. Jefferson Davis later lamented that the Confederacy had disappeared in 1865, Missouri and Kentucky were represented by partisan factions from those states, while the legitimate governments of those two states retained formal adherence to the Union. Also fighting for the Confederacy were two of the Five Civilized Tribes located in Indian Territory and a new, but uncontrolled, Confederate Territory of Arizona. Efforts by certain factions in Maryland to secede were halted by federal imposition of law, while Delaware, though of divided loyalty. A Unionist government in parts of Virginia organized the new state of West Virginia. With the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1,1863, the Union made abolition of slavery a war goal, as Union forces moved southward, large numbers of plantation slaves were freed. Many joined the Union lines, enrolling in service as soldiers, teamsters and laborers, the most notable advance was Shermans March to the Sea in late 1864. Much of the Confederacys infrastructure was destroyed, including telegraphs, railroads, plantations in the path of Shermans forces were severely damaged. Internal movement became increasingly difficult for Southerners, weakening the economy and these losses created an insurmountable disadvantage in men, materiel, and finance. Public support for Confederate President Jefferson Daviss administration eroded over time due to repeated military reverses, economic hardships, after four years of campaigning, Richmond was captured by Union forces in April 1865. Shortly afterward, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, President Davis was captured on May 10,1865, and jailed in preparation for a treason trial that was ultimately never held. The U. S. government began a process known as Reconstruction which attempted to resolve the political and constitutional issues of the Civil War. By 1877, the Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction in the former Confederate states, Confederate veterans had been temporarily disenfranchised by Reconstruction policy. The prewar South had many areas, the war left the entire region economically devastated by military action, ruined infrastructure
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New Hanover County, North Carolina
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New Hanover County is one of 100 counties located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 202,667, though second smallest in area, it is one of the most populous as its county seat, Wilmington, is one of the states largest cities. The county was created in 1729 as New Hanover Precinct and gained county status in 1739, New Hanover County is included in the Wilmington, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which also includes neighboring Pender county. The county was formed in 1729 as New Hanover Precinct of Bath County and it was named for the House of Hanover, a German noble family which was then ruling Great Britain. In 1734 parts of New Hanover Precinct became Bladen Precinct and Onslow Precinct, with the abolition of Bath County in 1739, all of its constituent precincts became counties. In 1750 the northern part of New Hanover County became Duplin County, in 1764 another part of New Hanover County was combined with part of Bladen County to form Brunswick County. Finally, in 1875 the separation of northern New Hanover County to form Pender County reduced it to its present dimensions, alfred Eichberg designed the New Hanover County Courthouse. Some of the battles of the American Civil War happened in the county with the Second Battle of Fort Fisher. The insurrection was planned by a group of nine conspirators which included Hugh MacRae and he later donated land to New Hanover County for a park which was named for him. In the park stands a plaque in his honor that does not mention his role in the 1898 insurrection. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 328 square miles. It is the second-smallest county in North Carolina by land area, pleasure Island Figure Eight Island Masonboro Island Wrightsville Beach Pender County - north Brunswick County - west I‑40 I‑140 US17 US17 Bus. US74 US76 US117 US421 US421 Truck NC132 NC133 As of the census of 2000, there were 160,307 people,68,183 households, the population density was 806 people per square mile. There were 79,616 housing units at a density of 400 per square mile. 2. 04% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,14. 3% were of English,13. 0% United States or American,10. 6% German and 10. 2% Irish ancestry according to Census 2000. 28. 90% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 50% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size were 2.29 and the average family size was 2.83. In the county, the population was out with 21. 00% under the age of 18,12. 00% from 18 to 24,30. 50% from 25 to 44,23. 70% from 45 to 64. The median age was 36 years, for every 100 females there were 93.30 males
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Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune
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The Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune is a daily newspaper published Mondays through Saturdays in Chillicothe, Missouri, United States. It is owned by GateHouse Media, founded in 1860 as the weekly Chillicothe Constitution, the paper has been published daily since 1889, and under its current name since 1930. The newspaper also publishes C-T X-Tra, a shopper, and MyChiliMo. The weekly Chillicothe Constitution was founded in 1860 as a Democratic-leaning newspaper, the Tribune, a Republican-leaning newspaper, was founded in 1868. In the 1880s the Watkins family became publishers of the Constitution, the two newspapers consolidated March 1,1928. The Watkins family solid it in April 1972 to Inland Industries, Inc. of Lenexa, Kansas, Clarence Edwin Watkins served as the publisher until his death in 1944. Rod Dixon is the current publisher and Catherine Stortz Ripley is the current editor, the newspaper is owned by GateHouse Media. He was killed about a half-hour later during a takeoff at the Chillicothe airport. On Christmas Day in 1930, a fire out in the office of Dr. Oma Dye. According to the December 26,1930, edition of the paper, as the fire department was arriving on the scene Chillicothe Mayor Harry Pardonner, who was also a fireman, was thrown from the truck as the ladder broke free and swung. According to the paper the mayor was badly bruised and would be confined to bed for several days, the newspapers publishers assured their readers that every effort had been made to get that days edition out via the old method of setting the type by hand. Rod Dixon, current Clarence Edwin Watkins
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GateHouse Media
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GateHouse Media Inc. former symbol on OTC Markets Groups OTCQB tier GHSE, is a U. S. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on September 27,2013 and it reemerged from the preplanned bankruptcy in November 2013. In the restructured plan Gatehouse stock was cancelled and a new holding company for the parent -- New Media Investment Group, Inc. was formed. Liberty Group Publishing was formed in 1998 when Kenneth L. Serota, headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois, Liberty then expanded the network increasing the total newspapers to 330 by 2000. Faced with problems it would downsize to 270 by June 2005, in June 2005, Fortress Investment Group bought Liberty for $527 million. Fortress expanded it to 75 dailies,231 weeklies,117 shoppers and 230 web sites and it was renamed GateHouse and its headquarters moved to suburban Rochester, New York in April 2006. In May 2006, it acquired Community Newspaper Company of Massachusetts, at the same time, Liberty bought Community Newspaper competitor Enterprise News Media. By the end of the year, the company had announced it would acquire Journal Register Companys properties in southeastern Massachusetts. In October 2006, GateHouse had its IPO with Fortress maintaining 60 percent ownership and its stock dropped from $20 on initial trading in 2006 to 16 cents when it was delisted in October 2008. On October 23,2007, GateHouse announced it was purchasing 14 daily newspapers, the Company has been in communication with the NYSE regarding the Companys non-compliance with continued listing standards but was unsuccessful in its efforts to avoid suspension and delisting. On March 29,2010, GateHouse announced the launch of RadarFrog, the newspapers will be operated by GateHouse Media following the purchase. CEO Robert James Thomson indicated that the newspapers were not strategically consistent with the portfolio of the company. On September 27,2013, the company filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in U. S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington and it listed assets of $433.7 million and debt of $1.3 billion. The preplanned bankruptcy centers on restructuring the Fortress News Corp deal, Fortress owns 52 percent of GateHouse debt. A Fortress unit FIF III Liberty Acquisitions LLC merged with Gatehouse in 2005, the case is GateHouse Media Inc. The company emerged from bankruptcy on November 26,2013, the terms involved the cancellation of shares of Gatehouse but those owners receiving warrants to buy shares in New Media Investment Group Inc. a new holding company. Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth, pubs prepress operations have urge to merge. GateHouse bonuses give clue they dont have one, the State of The American Newspaper, The Selling of Small-town America
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Pender County, North Carolina
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Pender County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 52,217, Pender County is part of the Wilmington, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county was formed in 1875 from New Hanover County and it was named for William Dorsey Pender of Edgecombe County, a Confederate general mortally wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg. It is in the section of the State and is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean and New Hanover, Brunswick, Columbus, Bladen, Sampson, Duplin. The present land area is 870.76 square miles and the 1990 population was 28,855, the county commissioners were ordered to hold their first meeting at Rocky Point. The act provided for the establishment of the town of Cowan as the county seat, whatever place was selected, the town should be called Stanford. In 1879 Stanford was changed to Burgaw, which was by that law incorporated, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 933 square miles, of which 870 square miles is land and 63 square miles is water. It is the fifth-largest county in North Carolina by land area, the population density was 47 people per square mile. There were 20,798 housing units at a density of 24 per square mile. 3. 64% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,22. 90% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 50% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.49 and the family size was 2.90. In the county, the population was out with 23. 20% under the age of 18,7. 40% from 18 to 24,29. 50% from 25 to 44,25. 80% from 45 to 64. The median age was 39 years, for every 100 females there were 101.20 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 99.50 males, the median income for a household in the county was $35,902, and the median income for a family was $41,633. Males had an income of $31,424 versus $21,623 for females. The per capita income for the county was $17,882, about 9. 50% of families and 13. 60% of the population were below the poverty line, including 18. 60% of those under age 18 and 14. 40% of those age 65 or over. Pender County is a member of the regional Cape Fear Council of Governments, the government is run by a board of commissioners with a county manager. Atkinson Burgaw Surf City Topsail Beach Wallace Watha St
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Austin American-Statesman
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The Austin American-Statesman is the major daily newspaper for Austin, the capital city of Texas. It is owned by Cox Enterprises, the newspaper places focus on issues affecting Austin and the Central Texas region. The Austin American-Statesman competes with the Austin Chronicle, an alternative weekly, the Statesman benefits from the culture and writing heritage of Austin. It extensively covers the scene, especially the annual South by Southwest Music Festival. The newspaper co-sponsors various events around Austin such as the Capital 10K foot race, the Statesmans news website is Statesman. com and its entertainment site is Austin360. com. It also publishes a weekly Spanish-language newspaper, ¡ahora sí, additionally, the Statesman partners with the St. Petersburg Times with PolitiFact Texas, a site that covers issues that are relevant to Texas and the Austin area. In 2009, the Austin American-Statesman ranked 60th in circulation among daily newspapers, figures from Scarborough Research show the Statesman — in print and online – reaches 68% of Central Texans in an average week. Following a national trend among daily newspapers, the Statesman has seen declines in recent years. As compared to a U. S. national decline of 2. 1% and its Sunday circulation fell 5. 5% to 215,984. Austin is the 11th largest city in the U. S, the Statesman endorsed George W. Bush in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, and Republican governor Rick Perry along with every other Republican incumbent in 2006. In the 2008 presidential election, however, the paper endorsed Barack Obama, the Statesman also provides coverage of the Libertarian Party and Green Party matters. Founded as the tri-weekly Democratic Statesman in 1871, the newspaper was originally allied with the state Democratic party during Reconstruction and it began daily publication as a morning paper in 1873. After absorbing the Austin Tribune in 1914, it published as the afternoon Austin Statesman and Tribune, then became an evening paper, a rival paper, the morning Austin American, began in 1914. Waco-based newspapermen Charles E. Marsh and E. S, fentress bought the American in 1919 and the Evening Statesman in 1924. Merged under one company, the morning and evening papers published separately during the week, the company continued separate titles until 1973, when all products became the American-Statesman, with four editions daily. Cox Enterprises acquired the Statesman when it bought the Waco newspaper company in 1976, in 1987, the Statesman moved to morning-only publication. In 2008, Cox put the Statesman up for sale with most of its newspaper holdings in order to pay down debt. A year later, the company pulled the paper off the market, the newspaper is part of subsidiary Cox Media Group, which joined the corporations television, radio and newspaper assets under one umbrella in 2008
