Omaha World-Herald
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| Omaha World-Herald | |
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 The July 27, 2005 front page of the Omaha World-Herald |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | OW-H employees |
| Publisher | Terry Kroeger |
| Editor | Mike Reilly |
| Founded | 1885 |
| Price | $ 0.50 Daily $ 1.50 Sunday |
| Headquarters | 1314 Douglas Street Omaha, Nebraska 68102  United States |
| Circulation | 184,150 Daily 222,469 Sunday[1] |
| ISSN | 0276-4962 |
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| Website: omaha.com | |
The Omaha World-Herald, based in Omaha, Nebraska, is the primary daily newspaper of Nebraska as well as portions of southwest Iowa. It is the largest employee-owned newspaper company in the United States.
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[edit] History
The newspaper was founded in 1885 by Gilbert M. Hitchcock as the Omaha Evening World. It absorbed George L. Miller's Omaha Herald in 1889. The paper was established as an independent political voice but quickly went into the Democratic Party column. William Jennings Bryan was its editor in 1894-96. Hitchcock served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and, starting in 1911, two Senate terms. His son-in-law, Henry Doorly, took control of the paper after Hitchcock's death in 1934. Over his lifetime Doorly served 58 years at the paper.
In 1963, the World Publishing Company, owned solely by heirs of the Hitchcock/Doorly families, sold The World-Herald to local businessman Peter Kiewit. When he died Kiewit left provisions to ensure that the paper would remain locally owned, with a large part of the plan securing employee ownership. The newspaper continues to offer morning, evening and Sunday editions and is published in a modern production plant called the Freedom Center, which opened in Downtown Omaha in 2001. In 2006, it purchased the Qwest Communications building in downtown Omaha as a new base for its news, editorial, circulation and business operations.
[edit] Notable staff
- Gilbert M. Hitchcock - Founder, editor-in-chief (Omaha World)
- George L. Miller - Founder, editor-in-chief (Omaha Herald)
- Thomas Tibbles - Assistant editor (Omaha Herald)
- Elia Peattie - Chief editorial writer, 1889-?
- William Jennings Bryan - Editor-in-chief, 1894-1896
- Henry Doorly - Editor-in-chief, 1934-1963
- Peter Kiewit
- Harvey E. Newbranch - Writer, winner of 1920 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing at the paper.
- Paul Henderson - Writer
