Baltimore News-American

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Baltimore News-American was a Baltimore, Maryland, broadsheet newspaper with a continuous lineage (in various forms) of more than two hundred years of Baltimore newspapers. Its final edition was published on May 27, 1986.

1 History
- 1.1 Lineage

[edit] History

The Baltimore News-American was formed by a merger of two papers, the Baltimore News-Post and the Baltimore American, in 1964. However, these papers themselves had a long history that preceded them, in particular the Baltimore American which could trace its lineage unbroken to at least 1796. Other precursor papers Baltimore News and Baltimore Post were founded in 1873 and 1922, respectively.

William Randolph Hearst's Hearst Company newspaper empire acquired the morning American and afternoon News in 1923 from Frank Munsey, (who also owned the New York Herald, New York Sun, and New York Telegraph). The Scripps-Howard Post was later acquired and merged with the News in 1936 to create the Baltimore News-Post. In 1964 the News-Post and American became the News-American. After the paper's last edition was published on May 27, 1986, its demise left the Baltimore Sun as the sole broad-circulation daily in Baltimore.

[edit] Lineage

Wikisource has original text related to this article:

Baltimore American

[edit] Baltimore American

1773: Maryland Journal and the Baltimore Advertiser
1796–1798: Eagle of Freedom; or, the Baltimore Town and Fell’s Point Gazette
1798-1799: Baltimore Intelligencer
1799-1802: American and Daily Advertiser (also published as the American and Baltimore Daily Advertiser and the American and Mercantile Daily Advertiser
1802-1853: American and Commercial Daily Advertiser
1854-1856: American and Commercial Advertiser (also Baltimore Weekly American)
1857-1861: Baltimore American", and "Commercial Advertiser"
1861-1869: American and Commercial Advertiser
1870-1883: Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser
1883-1964: Baltimore American