The Joplin Globe

The Joplin Globe
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
Publisher Michael Beatty
Editor Carol Stark
Founded 1896
Headquarters 117 East Fourth Street, Joplin, Missouri 64801 USA
Circulation 30,000 Sunday circulation [1]
Official website joplinglobe.com

The Joplin Globe is a seven-day daily newspaper published in Joplin, Missouri, USA, covering parts of 14 counties in southwestern Missouri. Since 2002, it has been owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.

The newspaper employs some 45 journalists in its newsroom. Its marketing slogan is "It's your world. We deliver it."[2]

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Bonnie and Clyde Scoop

In 1933 The Joplin Globe had a country-wide scoop, obtaining the camera[3] left behind by Bonnie and Clyde after a deadly confrontation with local police, developing and publishing the rolls of film in it, including the now-legendary photos of Bonnie holding Clyde at mock gunpoint and of Bonnie with her foot on a fender, pistol in her hand and cigar in her mouth.

The Founder

Thomas G. Barbee was born in October 1870 in Ritchey, Newton County, Missouri. He married Laura (maiden name unknown) who was born in January 1874 in Missouri. Barbee owned the Joplin Globe and established and published the Joplin Tribune. Barbee died on 18 October 1924 in Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri.

References

  1. ^ CNHI-CAN Circulation, figures for an undetermined date, accessed March 24, 2007.
  2. ^ Joplin Globe FAQ, accessed March 24, 2007.
  3. ^ Court TV, CrimeLab website, page on Bonnie and Clyde.

The Joplin Globe was established in 1896. Its founder was Gilbert Barbee, who was born in Newton County in 1850, in Ritchey, Missouri. Barbee owned the Joplin Globe in partnership with others and died on October 18, 1924 in Joplin, Missouri, which is in Jasper County.

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