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This
note considers the former Brush-Moore newspaper chain
of the US. It covers -
introduction
Brush-Moore Newspapers Inc., based in Canton, Ohio,
was acquired by Thomson Newspapers
in 1967 for US$72 million.
The group was founded Louis Herbert Brush (1873-1948),
who acquired the Salem (Ohio) News - founded
in 1889 as the Salem Daily News in 1897 and the
East Liverpool Review (later the Tribune
& Review) in 1901. In 1923 he partnered with
Roy Donald Moore (1889-1954), publisher of the Ironton
Register, acquiring Warren Gamaliel Harding's
Marion Star. Moore had worked as a railroad and
commercial telegrapher before becoming a telegrapher for
Associated Press (AP), bureau manager
for International News Service and a senior executive
of the King Features Syndicate.
Brush-Moore was formed in 1927. By the late 1930s the
group owned papers in Canton, Portsmouth, East Liverpool,
Steubenville (Ohio); Salisbury and Wicomico (Maryland)
and 50% of the Ironton Tribune.
From the 1950s it expanded into California, acquiring
the San Gabriel Valley Daily Tribune and Oxnard
Press Courier. At the time of the Thomson takeover
it encompassed 12 dailies and 2 weeklies.
holdings
Brush-Moore titles included -
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San Gabriel Valley Daily Tribune
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Oxnard Press Courier
- Humboldt
Times-Standard
- Canton
Repository
- Weirton Daily Times
- Marion Star
- East Liverpool Tribune & Review
- Salem News
- Steubenville Herald-Star
The
group also owned Dayton (Ohio) AM radio station WONE and
had a 50% stake in Portsmouth (Ohio) station WPAY.
studies
There have been no major studies of Brush-Moore or its
founders.
The abortive 1964 takeover of the Tucson Star
features in Joint Operating Agreements: The Newspaper
Preservation Act and Its Application (Norwood:
Praeger 1993) by John Busterna & Robert Picard and
other works
landmarks
1897 Louis Brush acquires Salem (Ohio) News
1901 buys
1923 buys Marion Star for US$550,000
1926 buys Steubenville Herald-Star
1927 Brush-Moore Newspapers Inc. established
1927 buys Canton Repository
1930 buys and amalgamates Portsmouth Times and
Portsmouth Sun
1930 buys Canton Daily News from Cox
1930 closes Canton Daily News
1931 buys Mansfield News and Lorain Times-Herald
from Hoiles
1936 buys WHBC AM Canton
1937 buys daily Salisbury Times and Wicomico
News from Truitt family
1939 sells WHBC to Ohio Broadcasting Company
1960 acquires San Gabriel Valley Tribune
1961 buys WONE AM Dayton
1964 thwarted takeover of Tucson Star
1967 buys Humboldt Times-Standard
1967 Brush-Moore acquired by Thomson
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