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The Griffin Daily News
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The Griffin Daily News is a daily paper serving [[Griffin, Georgia]] and [[Spalding County, Georgia|Spaulding County]]. It is published in print and online.<ref></ref>
== History ==
[[File:Douglas Glessner.png|thumb|Douglas Glessner, founder and long-time editor of Griffin Daily News and Sun]]
The Griffin News was founded in 1871 as a daily publishing each weekday except Monday with a weekly on Friday.<ref></ref> Douglas Glessner, originally of Deleware, Ohio,<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref></ref> was both editor and publisher.<ref></ref> After a merger with The Sun in 1889 it was published under the name The Griffin Daily News and Sun until 1925 when it became the Griffin Daily News.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
Under Glessner's editorship the paper published racially inflammatory material and took a pro-lynching stance. According to historian Donald G. Matthews, it "pilloried" the Governor for calling for the prosecution of those responsible for lynching Dr. W. L. Ryder, a white man lynched in 1897.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> The paper is seen by historian Edwin T. Arnold as a provocateur in events surrounding the all-black regiment the Tenth Immunes, a [[Buffalo Soldier]] regiment, as they passed back through Georgia, with much of that paper's coverage setting the national tone of coverage for those events.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> When [[Lynching of Sam Hose|Sam Hose]] was lynched and burned alive in a nearby [[Coweta County, Georgia|Coweta County]], the paper ran the headline "The Hose Will Not Put Out This Fire".<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
At the time of Glessner's sudden death in 1910 due to [[Nephritis|neprhitis]], the paper was considered one of the "leading Democratic newspapers of middle Georgia."<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
In 1924 the paper was purchased by Judge C. C. Givens to be run by two of his sons.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> It was bought the subsequent year by Quimby Melton, a former manager for the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain. It stayed in the Melton family until its sale to [[Thomson Corporation|Thompson Newspapers]] in 1982.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> In the Melton era, the paper's circulation rose from a readership of 6,000 in 1950 to 13,500 in 1980.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> In 1997 it was bought by the [[Paxton Media Group]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
== History ==
[[File:Douglas Glessner.png|thumb|Douglas Glessner, founder and long-time editor of Griffin Daily News and Sun]]
The Griffin News was founded in 1871 as a daily publishing each weekday except Monday with a weekly on Friday.<ref></ref> Douglas Glessner, originally of Deleware, Ohio,<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref></ref> was both editor and publisher.<ref></ref> After a merger with The Sun in 1889 it was published under the name The Griffin Daily News and Sun until 1925 when it became the Griffin Daily News.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
Under Glessner's editorship the paper published racially inflammatory material and took a pro-lynching stance. According to historian Donald G. Matthews, it "pilloried" the Governor for calling for the prosecution of those responsible for lynching Dr. W. L. Ryder, a white man lynched in 1897.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> The paper is seen by historian Edwin T. Arnold as a provocateur in events surrounding the all-black regiment the Tenth Immunes, a [[Buffalo Soldier]] regiment, as they passed back through Georgia, with much of that paper's coverage setting the national tone of coverage for those events.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> When [[Lynching of Sam Hose|Sam Hose]] was lynched and burned alive in a nearby [[Coweta County, Georgia|Coweta County]], the paper ran the headline "The Hose Will Not Put Out This Fire".<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
At the time of Glessner's sudden death in 1910 due to [[Nephritis|neprhitis]], the paper was considered one of the "leading Democratic newspapers of middle Georgia."<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
In 1924 the paper was purchased by Judge C. C. Givens to be run by two of his sons.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> It was bought the subsequent year by Quimby Melton, a former manager for the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain. It stayed in the Melton family until its sale to [[Thomson Corporation|Thompson Newspapers]] in 1982.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> In the Melton era, the paper's circulation rose from a readership of 6,000 in 1950 to 13,500 in 1980.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> In 1997 it was bought by the [[Paxton Media Group]].<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
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