''The Daily News'' is a newspaper covering Longview,

Kelso, Washington Kelso is a city in the southwestern part of the State of Washington and is the county seat of Cowlitz County. At the 2020 census, the population was 12,720. Kelso is part of the Longview, Washington Metropolitan statistical area, which has ...

, and

Cowlitz County, Washington Cowlitz County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, its population was 110,730. The county seat is Kelso, and its largest city is Longview. The county was formed in April 1854. Its name derives from th ...

in the United States. Apart from a brief period in the 1990s when, prior to ceasing publication, the ''Cowlitz County Advocate'' was published in Longview, the ''Daily News'' has been Longview's only newspaper since its inception.

History

Ralph Tennal published the first issue of ''The Longview News'' on Jan. 27, 1923. The paper was financed by Robert A. Long, a lumber magnate who was president of

Long-Bell Lumber Company In 1875, Robert A. Long and Victor Bell formed the Long-Bell Lumber Company in Columbus, Kansas. The Long-Bell Lumber Company branched out using balanced vertical integration to control all aspects of lumber from the sawmills to the retail lumber ...

and founded the city of Longview. Tennal quit after a few months and Long hired John Morgan McClelland Sr. to replace him as the paper's editor. On April 2, 1923, ''The Longview News'' began publishing daily and was renamed to ''The Longview Daily News,'' and then ''The Daily News.'' McClelland partnered with Long to create the Longview Publishing Company and purchase the newspaper from the Long-Bell Lumber Company in 1925. McClelland Sr. retired in 1955 and turned over operations to his son John McClelland Jr. Ted Natt and John Natt, grandsons of McClelland Sr., sold the newspaper to

Howard Publications Howard Publications was a family-owned company of newspapers in the United States. It owned 16 daily newspapers when it sold to Lee Enterprises for $694 million in 2002. Robert S. Howard founded the company in 1961.York, Tom (2 December 2019)Speci ...

in 1999, ending 76 years of McClelland-Natt family ownership.

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acquired the newspaper in 2002. Starting June 27, 2023, the print edition of the newspaper will be reduced to three days a week: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Also, the newspaper will transition from being delivered by a traditional newspaper delivery carrier to mail delivery by the U.S. Postal Service.

Pulitzer Prize

The ''Daily News'' covered the eruption of

Mount St. Helens Mount St. Helens (known as Lawetlat'la to the local Cowlitz people, and Loowit or Louwala-Clough to the Klickitat) is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States ...

in 1980, and won the

1981 Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prizes for 1981 were announced on April 13, 1981. The winner in each category is listed first, in bold, followed by the other finalists. Journalism awards *Public Service: **'' The Charlotte Observer'', for its week-long series, "Br ...

for Local, General, or Spot Reporting, as well as the 1981 national

Sigma Delta Chi Award The Sigma Delta Chi Awards are presented annually by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) (formerly Sigma Delta Chi) for excellence in journalism. The SPJ states the purpose of the award is to promote "the free flow of information vital ...

. Following the death of the paper's publisher in a helicopter crash, the

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established the regional Ted Natt Award for First Amendment journalism in 1999.

References

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Coverage of Mount St. Helens eruption

from Lee Enterprises

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