''The Greenville News'' is a daily morning newspaper published in
Greenville, South Carolina
Greenville (; locally ) is a city in and the county seat, seat of Greenville County, South Carolina, United States. With a population of 70,720 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the sixth-largest city in the state. Greenvil ...
. After ''
The State
A state is a centralized political organization that imposes and enforces rules over a population within a territory. There is no undisputed definition of a state. One widely used definition comes from the German sociologist Max Weber: a "sta ...
'' in Columbia and Charleston's ''
The Post and Courier
''The Post and Courier'' is the main daily newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina. It traces its ancestry to three newspapers, the ''Charleston Courier'', founded in 1803, the ''Charleston Daily News'', founded 1865, and ''The Evening Post'', f ...
'', it is the third largest paper in South Carolina.
History
''The Greenville News'' started off as a four-page publication in 1874 by A.M. Speights. For a one-year subscription, the cost was eight dollars. After five different owners and many editors, the Peace family under the leadership of Bony Hampton Peace bought the paper in 1919 from Ellison Adger Smyth, around the same time that Greenville was becoming known as "The Textile Center of the South." The Peace family acquired the evening paper ''The Piedmont'' in 1927. In 1965 both papers helped to form
Multimedia Inc. Then in 1995, the smaller afternoon paper and the larger morning paper merged to become ''The News-Piedmont.'' In December 1985 Gannett purchased Multimedia, changing the newspaper name back to ''The Greenville News.'' Today ''The News'' prints over 50,000 newspapers a day.
Publications
In addition to ''The Greenville News'', the company publishes ''eGreenville'', which features local entertainment, news, photos, and reviews. A free publication, it is available at more than 1,100 locations in
Anderson,
Greenville,
Pickens and
Spartanburg counties.
Awards
*1977
Penney-Missouri Award for General Excellence
(The Piedmont)
Notable staff
*
Daisy Hendley Gold, author and journalist
*
Paul K. Martin, NASA Inspector General
*
Bill Workman
William Douglas Workman III (July 3, 1940 – May 12, 2019) was an American businessman and politician who served as the mayor of Greenville, South Carolina from 1983 to 1995. Greenville is the seat of Greenville County, the state's most populou ...
, former Mayor of Greenville
References
External links
Official website
Newspapers published in South Carolina
Greenville, South Carolina
Gannett publications
1874 establishments in South Carolina
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