{"id":8843,"date":"2016-06-08T18:11:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T18:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lichen.csd.sc.edu\/sce\/entries\/morning-news\/"},"modified":"2022-08-15T18:42:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T18:42:43","slug":"morning-news","status":"publish","type":"entry","link":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/entries\/morning-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(2003 circulation: 32,776 daily and 35,504 Sunday). A morning newspaper published daily and Sunday in the city of Florence, the <em>Morning News <\/em>was established as a daily in 1922. The paper\u2019s roots can be traced to the <em>Farmers\u2019 Friend, <\/em>founded in 1887 by the editor and publisher J. W. Hammond. Following a series of mergers and renamings, the newspaper became a weekly published by the <em>Florence Daily Times, <\/em>which had been established in 1894. The <em>Daily Times <\/em>merged in 1925 with the <em>Morning News Review, <\/em>and in 1929 the newspaper became the <em>Morning News.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The publisher\u2019s son, Jack O\u2019Dowd, became editor in 1951 for a short-lived stay. A moderate on racial issues, he endorsed the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s desegregation decision, angering Klansmen and other conservatives. Forced to flee the state, he was later employed by the <em>Chicago Sun-Times. <\/em>James A. Rogers, a former employee, returned in 1956 as editor and became a strong progressive spokesman. After J. M. O\u2019Dowd died in 1970, the newspaper was run by a committee and then by the board of directors, including surviving family members, for several years before being sold to Thomson Newspapers in 1981. In October 1995 the newspaper moved to a new facility on Dargan Street. The next year the publisher Thomas Marschel and the editor Frank Sayles added the words \u201cVoice of the Pee Dee\u201d to the newspaper\u2019s name to underscore its regional scope. On August 1, 2000, the <em>Morning News <\/em>was sold to Media General, Inc.<\/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: 32,776 daily and 35,504 Sunday). A morning newspaper published daily and Sunday in the city of Florence, the Morning News was established as a daily in 1922. The paper\u2019s roots can be traced to the Farmers\u2019 Friend, founded in 1887 by the editor and publisher J. W. Hammond. Following a series of mergers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","class_list":["post-8843","entry","type-entry","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ecms-a-z","ecms-business-and-industry","ecms-encyclopedia","ecms-florence-county","ecms-m","ecms-peedee","ecms-politics","ecms-popular-culture"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Morning News - South Carolina Encyclopedia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/entries\/morning-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Morning News - South Carolina Encyclopedia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(2003 circulation: 32,776 daily and 35,504 Sunday). A morning newspaper published daily and Sunday in the city of Florence, the Morning News was established as a daily in 1922. The paper\u2019s roots can be traced to the Farmers\u2019 Friend, founded in 1887 by the editor and publisher J. W. Hammond. Following a series of mergers [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/entries\/morning-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Carolina Encyclopedia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-15T18:42:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/entries\/morning-news\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/entries\/morning-news\/\",\"name\":\"Morning News - South Carolina Encyclopedia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-06-08T18:11:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-15T18:42:43+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/entries\/morning-news\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/entries\/morning-news\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/entries\/morning-news\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Entries\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/entries\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Morning News\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/\",\"name\":\"South Carolina Encyclopedia\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Morning News - South Carolina Encyclopedia","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/entries\/morning-news\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Morning News - South Carolina Encyclopedia","og_description":"(2003 circulation: 32,776 daily and 35,504 Sunday). A morning newspaper published daily and Sunday in the city of Florence, the Morning News was established as a daily in 1922. The paper\u2019s roots can be traced to the Farmers\u2019 Friend, founded in 1887 by the editor and publisher J. W. Hammond. Following a series of mergers [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/entries\/morning-news\/","og_site_name":"South Carolina Encyclopedia","article_modified_time":"2022-08-15T18:42:43+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/entries\/morning-news\/","url":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/entries\/morning-news\/","name":"Morning News - South Carolina Encyclopedia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/#website"},"datePublished":"2016-06-08T18:11:12+00:00","dateModified":"2022-08-15T18:42:43+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/entries\/morning-news\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/entries\/morning-news\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/entries\/morning-news\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Entries","item":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/entries\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Morning News"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/","name":"South Carolina Encyclopedia","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entry\/8843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entry"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/entry"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entry\/8843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29295,"href":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entry\/8843\/revisions\/29295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}