That year, Williams and Bryan agreed to merge Richmond's main newspapers. Williams, owner of the Dispatch, bought the News in 1900.īy 1903, it was obvious Richmond was not big enough to support four papers. In 1899, the evening Richmond News was founded.

In 1896, Bryan acquired the eight-year-old rival Manchester Leader and launched the Evening Leader. In 1890, the Daily Times changed its name to the Richmond Times. Bryan and Ginter had previously helped revitalize the Tanner & Delany Engine Company, transforming it into the Richmond Locomotive Works, which had 800 employees by 1893 and built 200 locomotives per year. A year later, lawyer Joseph Bryan (1845-1908) bought the Daily Times from Ginter, beginning the paper's long association with the Bryan family. In 1886, Lewis Ginter founded the Richmond Daily Times. John Mercer Langston with racial stereotypes. After James Cowardin died in 1882, his son Charles took the helm (with Ellyson's assistance, and with Ellyson family members handling business operations), and the paper stopped supporting Negro rights, instead criticizing Del. The revived Dispatch later opposed former Confederate General William Mahone and his Readjuster Party. After skullduggery concerning stolen ballots in the pro-Chahoon Jackson Ward and the election commission declared Ellyson the winner, he refused to serve under the resulting cloud, leading to yet another problematic election won by the Conservative Party candidate. After what some called the 'Municipal War' because the prior appointed mayor George Chahoon refused to relinquish his office and mob violence and blockades, the Virginia Supreme Court declared Ellyson the mayor but awaited elections. Ellyson briefly served as Richmond's mayor in 1870, selected by Richmond's city council appointed by Governor Gilbert C. However, it later accepted the resulting state constitution (after anti-Confederate provisions were stripped) as well as allowing Negroes on juries and in the legislature. Although the newspaper initially opposed the Ku Klux Klan, the Richmond Dispatch accepted Klan advertising in 1868, as it fought Congressional Reconstruction and the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868. By 1866, the Dispatch was one of five papers 'carrying prestige from ante bellum days' published in Richmond (of 7 newspapers). However, it resumed publication on December 9, 1865, establishing a new office at 12th and Main Streets and accepting Henry K. The Richmond Daily Dispatch published its last wartime issue on Apand its office was destroyed the next night during the fire set by Confederate soldiers as they left the city. Lewellen before his dangerous departure (presumably through Wilmington, North Carolina, the last Southern port open to Confederate vessels in 1864). In 1864, Hammersley brought new presses from England, having run the Union blockade, although he sold half his interest to James W. Most of its wartime issues are now available online. By April 1861, the newspaper announced its circulation was 'within a fraction of 13,000.' The newspaper had been staunchly pro-slavery since 1852, and called Union soldiers 'thieves and cut-throats'. John Hammersley bought half of the newspaper company in 1859, and continued as a joint publisher on the masthead until May 5, 1862, when no name appeared. Cowardin began his only term in the Virginia House of Delegates (as a Whig) in 1853, but many thought the city's pre-eminent paper the Richmond Examiner. In 1850, Cowardin and Davis established a rival newspaper called the Richmond Dispatch, and by 1852 the Dispatch bragged of having circulation three times as large as any other daily paper in the city, and advertising dominated even its front page. History and notable accomplishments Development Īlthough the Richmond Compiler was published in Virginia's capital beginning in 1815, and merged with a later newspaper called The Times, the Times and Compiler failed in 1853, despite an attempt of former banker James A. The Times-Dispatch lists itself as 'Virginia's News Leader' on its masthead. As the primary paper of the state's capital, the Times-Dispatch serves as a newspaper of record for rural regions of the state that lack large local papers. In addition to the Richmond area ( Petersburg, Chester, Hopewell, Colonial Heights and surrounding areas), the Times-Dispatch has substantial readership in Charlottesville, Lynchburg, and Waynesboro. The Times-Dispatch has the second-highest circulation of any Virginia newspaper, after Norfolk's The Virginian-Pilot. The Richmond Times-Dispatch ( RTD or TD for short) is the primary daily newspaper in Richmond, Virginia, and the primary newspaper of record for the state of Virginia. 300 East Franklin Street, Richmond, Virginia

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