{"id":6735,"date":"2016-05-17T14:12:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T14:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lichen.csd.sc.edu\/sce\/entries\/greenville-news\/"},"modified":"2022-08-05T16:56:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T16:56:41","slug":"greenville-news","status":"publish","type":"entry","link":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/entries\/greenville-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenville News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(2003 circulation: 87,622 daily and 116,884 Sunday). The <em>Greenville News <\/em>is a daily newspaper published in the city of Greenville. The Greenville News-Piedmont Company has been the primary print source of news and advertising in northwest South Carolina for most of the twentieth century. The <em>Greenville Daily News <\/em>began in 1874 under the ownership of A. M. Speights, who supported Wade Hampton\u2019s bid for governor in 1876. During the 1890s, under the editorship of Alfred B. Williams, the <em>News <\/em>became a leading anti-Tillman newspaper in the upstate. In 1919, with a circulation of less than five thousand, the <em>Greenville News <\/em>was purchased by Bony Hampton Peace, the newspaper\u2019s former business manager. Within ten years, Peace had transformed the <em>Greenville News <\/em>into South Carolina\u2019s leading newspaper in circulation and advertising. Peace also acquired the <em>Piedmont, <\/em>Greenville\u2019s afternoon daily, in 1927 and ran the two newspapers under a single corporate parent. Under the leadership of his son, Roger Craft Peace, the newspapers continued to flourish. In 1968 the Greenville News-Piedmont Company merged with Southeastern Broadcasting Company to form Multimedia, Inc. With its headquarters in Greenville, Multimedia amassed newspaper and broadcast properties throughout the Southeast, plus a television production company and cable television interests.<\/p>\n<p>For much of the twentieth century, the Greenville News-Piedmont Company defended the state\u2019s established social, political, and economic order. But as the twenty-first century approached, new management moved the newspaper in a different direction. While remaining fiscally conservative, the newspaper began to address the racial, social, and political inequity that had characterized the state\u2019s early history. The <em>News <\/em>distinguished itself in the 1990s with coverage of misappropriation of funds by University of South Carolina president James Holderman, the \u201cLost Trust\u201d vote-buying scandal in the General Assembly, and stewardship of nuclear weapons facilities in the state. By the turn of the twenty-first century, the <em>Greenville News <\/em>had a daily circulation of almost 100,000 and 120,000 on Sunday. But the <em>Piedmont, <\/em>once the state\u2019s largest afternoon newspaper, followed the trend of its afternoon peers, and closed in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Huff, Archie Vernon, Jr. <em>Greenville: The History of the City and County in the South Carolina Piedmont. <\/em>Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995.<\/p>\n<p>McNeely, Patricia G. <em>The Palmetto Press: The History of South Carolina\u2019s Newspapers and the Press Association. <\/em>Columbia: South Carolina Press Association, 1998.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(2003 circulation: 87,622 daily and 116,884 Sunday). The Greenville News is a daily newspaper published in the city of Greenville. The Greenville News-Piedmont Company has been the primary print source of news and advertising in northwest South Carolina for most of the twentieth century. 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