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Media related to Newspapers of Kansas at Wikimedia Commons; Kansas Press Association - has a full list of daily and weekly newspapers that are KPA members. Penny Abernathy, "The Expanding News Desert: Kansas", Usnewsdeserts.com, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Survey of local news existence and ownership in 21st century)
The Mercury was founded as a weekly publication on May 9, 1884, at a time when Manhattan was already served by two other competing newspapers. [3] It became a daily on February 8, 1909. After passing through four different owners, the newspaper was purchased by Fay N. Seaton in 1915. [ 4 ]
Manhattan had a number of newspapers in its early years. Following is a timeline of 19th-century papers in the town: Kansas Express (1859–1926) – first newspaper in Manhattan, consolidated into The Manhattan Mercury
Tom Hawk, member of the Kansas House of Representatives; Martha Keys, U.S. Congressperson; Albert E. Mead, 5th governor of Washington; Jerry Moran, member of the United States Senate; Frank B. Morrison, 34th governor of Nebraska; Susan Mosier, member of the Kansas House of Representatives; Tom Phillips, member of the Kansas House of Representatives
Manhattan has had at least one newspaper published for the town continuously since The Kansas Express published its first edition on May 21, 1859. [8] Manhattan is a center of broadcast media for the surrounding area. One AM and ten FM radio stations are licensed to and/or broadcast from the city. [75]
Writers from Manhattan, Kansas (15 P) Pages in category "People from Manhattan, Kansas" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total.
1858: The Kansas State Record starts publishing. 1873: The Topeka Blade is founded by J. Clarke Swayze. 1879: George W. Reed buys the Blade and changes its name to The Kansas State Journal. 1879: The Topeka Daily Capital is founded by Major J.K. Hudson as an evening paper but changes to morning in 1881.
In 1946, the paper returned to its former size and was published on the presses of the Manhattan Mercury-Chronicle. The frequency and size of the paper changed again in 1949, when a Cox-O Type press was installed in the basement of Kedzie Hall and the Collegian went from a semi-weekly broadsheet to a daily tabloid-sized publication.